David Savage wrote:
2008/12/1 Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Now there's a bit o'slang from down under I've not heard
before. Laneways.
Not an Aussie term, it's a "proper' English name for a narrow road or
access/service road.
The Poms use the term more than us.
You're kidding me. That's the first time I've ever seen that word. But
then again, I did grow up in the USA and I don't get out very
much it's
true ;-)
I've never heard it called a laneway either. It's an alley, snicket or
ginnel. Lanes are in the country, not the town.
Well WTF do I know, I'm just a poor dumb colonial boy.
:-D
In & around this suburb the laneways are what run in the back of
certain older blocks. They were there to service the thunderboxes:
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thunderbox>
Cheers,
Dave
At least you Aussies had boxes, we had to make do with jugs.
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You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
--Al Capone.
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