On 10/4/2014 6:16 AM, Janet wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>> 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.
>
> pic
>
> 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
>
>
Thank you, and Cherry, too. We just call them driveways. We don't
have a separate name for it.

Jill