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> On 10/3/2014 4:59 PM, Kalmia wrote:
> > Reading a novel set in Sussex - author has referred a few times to 'crisps'
> > as something commonly eaten. Are these what we Yanks call potato chips, or French fries? Thanks.
> >
> You got the answer to that - potato chips.
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> > I love some of the other terms - like 'garage drive' for.... 'driveway'?
> >
> I'd like to know what the heck is a drop kerb/curb? I know what a curb
> is (however you choose to spell it) but what is it when it's prefaced by
> the word drop?

a kerb that's been lowered to make level access between the vehicle road
and a pedestrian pavement.

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http://www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk/cont...ets/roads_and_
pavements/vehicle_access___dropped_kerbs.aspx

In UK nearly all public roads in inhabited areas, have adjacent
pedestrian pavements, divided from the vehicle-road by a kerb about 3
inches high. The kerb also allows rainfall (relatively heavy here) to
run off the pavement into the roadside gutter and be drained away down
sewers back to waterways.

Wherever car parks, businesses or homes have a vehicle or foot access
across a pavement to a road, (say, from a home driveway) the kerb is
dropped so the pavement slopes to meat the road.
This reduces damage to tyres and means that pedestrians crossing the
access can push a pram, drive a wheelchair/disability buggy etc
smoothly without having to go over a 3" ledge.

Janet UK