>>>As Tracy calls it. I've always known it as "shriek" in this country. Mind you, you guys call the pavement "sidewalk" and the road "pavement" so what can yer do?
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>>Not quite. We call the 'pavement' "sidewalk" and "pavement" both. We call the 'road', "road". We do pave the road, but we don't refer to it as "pavement".
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>>Now, of course, we call the highway "highway", even when it's not an overpass. Even when it's an underpass under an overpass, we still call it a highway. Must refer to speed rather than altitude, I guess.
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>Here in the states half of these are wrong anyway.

Which half?