Footpath or pavement, which is it?

Super-Rush

The gripe.

LoganRice

Walking area

Awkward Badger

I thought pavement was one of those words older people used. Like calling the radio the wireless.

Bongalongherb

I tripped up and hit my head off the pavement.

I walked from the cycle-lane onto the footpath.

My wireless is disconnected.

My radio is playing nice relaxing music.

eeeee

The path. The footpath if someone is really not getting it.

Americanisms really piss me off. We have deadly colloquialisms, why do people go with Americanisms? Cops is another one that really annoys me. You're Irish, you have been born, reared, live and work in Ireland. Where the cup did you get cop from?! There's shyte loads of that. Mate is another one (although that's an English one, equally annoying). :mad: :mad:

I actually can't think about it anymore it's too annoying.

--LOS--

After reading all that I'm not sure what I call it anymore

Kevin McCloud

The hard shoulder if one has had too many cherry's.

It's a sidewalk

Bongalongherb

It's a footpath here in Ireland, end of story. Can we now cook the christmas dinner ? pretty please with brussel sprouts on top I'm starving.

Son Of A Vidic

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

It's sidewalk!!!

In Ireland, we walk on a footpath. Sidewalking is left to those of us who've had one too many.

braddun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DjMT-qR9g

the_syco

It's a footpath if you're a pedestrian, the pavement if you're a cyclist, and the sidewalk if you're driving something with four wheels.

The Backwards Man

The ditch.

Turtwig

It's a pavement until someone walks on it. Then it's a footpath.

Bongalongherb

Turtwig wrote: »

It's a pavement until someone walks on it. Then it's a footpath.

Umm... That's like saying the moon isn't there if I'm not looking at it ? Quantum mechanically thinking.

Bongalongherb

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Umm... That's like saying the moon isn't there if I'm not looking at it ? Quantum mechanically thinking.

Deepak!

Turtwig

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Umm... That's like saying the moon isn't there if I'm not looking at it ? Quantum mechanically thinking.

No it's like saying the moon is a clump of rock. Then in the presence of the Earth it becomes a cheese.

Bongalongherb

Ahh, everything is blending together and starting to make sense now.

Victor

Actually, it's a footway ...

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1993/en/act/pub/0014/sec0002.html#sec2

Roads Act, 1993
Interpretation.

2.—(1) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—

“footpath” means a road over which there is a public right of way for pedestrians only, not being a footway;

“footway” means that portion of any road associated with a roadway which is provided primarily for use by pedestrians;

In an Irish engineering context 'pavement' refers to a hard surface of a road, e.g. concrete, asphalt or tarmac.

Donkey Oaty

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Ahh, everything is blending together and starting to make sense now.

Note section 7 in Part 1 of the Act that Victor quotes, which clarifies the situation beyond all doubt:

The Minister may make regulations prescribing any matter or thing which is referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed or in relation to any matters referred to in this Act as the subject of regulations or for the purpose of giving full effect to this Act.

Tearin It Up

Its footpath, everyone else move to America please.

Capt'n Midnight

the_syco wrote: »

It's a footpath if you're a pedestrian, the pavement if you're a cyclist, and the sidewalk if you're driving something with four wheels.

in the US you park on the driveway and drive on the parkway , a shipment can go by car but a cargo goes on a ship.

and Noah Webster deliberately changed spellings , even between different revisions of his dictionary

bodice ripper

Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

Why? Are you American or just weird?

I was raised in Kildare by a pack of rogue Americans

moxin

Victor wrote: »

Actually, it's a footway ...

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1993/en/act/pub/0014/sec0002.html#sec2

In an Irish engineering context 'pavement' refers to a hard surface of a road, e.g. concrete, asphalt or tarmac.

Who do hell here will honestly call it a footway? Never knew our glorious footpaths were called footways till now!!

Tearin It Up

The rules of the road and the road safety authority of Ireland calls it a footpath.

Under the pedestrian safety section on their website

- Stop, look and listen.
- If there is a footpath use it.
- If there is no footpath, walk/run/jog on the right hand side of the road, facing oncoming traffic and keeping as close as possible to the side of the road.

There's no mention of pavement or sidewalk.

Tarzana2

Jays, people get so het up about americanisms "creeping in", that they are even ascribing the americanisation tag to words and phrases that aren't even American in origin. Pavement has been used in Ireland for years. You gave that wiki link, OP, but other sources, including the OED, give it as British English.

braddun

pavement is the street