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Hi there
Do pedestrians have to walk sideways on US American sidewalks. In non US English speaking countries the "footpath" or where pedestrians go is usually on the side of a road is mostly known as the pavement == while in the US I think the pavement actually means the kerb at the side of the road. Similarly I'd imagine US visitors to London would not understand why two of the oldest and most famous malls in London (The Mall, and Pall Mall) have no shops in them.
Language evolves over time with regional differences - not just accents !!.
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jimbo
That was exactly why I said it's the terminology used which is different. Just like in the U.S., that area for storage at the end of the car or the front for Porsche's is known as a trunk in the U.S. at least but known as a boot elsewhere. In Cantonese chinese at least, the road can be called a horse road. The sidewalk or pavement would be called the human walking road.
The Mall in Washington, D.C. is also not your traditional mall with shops but why it is called that is:
"The term "mall" originally meant a place where people played pall-mall, a game similar to croquet. The Mall is basically Memorial Parks which preserves more than one thousand acres of federal parkland in Washington, DC, including: the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Martin Luther King, Jr." so it's not even what people normally call a mall in the U.S.
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