On Dec 1, 2008, at 00:39 , Derby Chang wrote:
Bob W wrote:
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.
Bob
Must be one of them fancy-schmancy Melbourne terms then. A music
festival will be doing the rounds this summer in laneways in the
capital cities, including Sydney - argh, another Melbourne import.
The first two pages of a GOOGLE SEARCH refer almost exclusively to
Melbourne, with Sydney getting a passing mention.
Wikipedia has nothing, just refers you to "lanes".
But the Deer Industry Association of Australia says:
A laneway system has three possible functions. It should be designed
to facilitate stock and farm machinery movement. It can be used as a
holding area for stock or it can be designed to be used as a paddock
as well as a laneway.
There are no rules governing the size, length, shape or positions of
the laneways. The design of a laneway system will depend on the
topography of your farm, the position of your yards, waterways, trees,
other uses of the laneway and the type of vehicle used for mustering.
In other words, it has to be part of your whole farm plan.
The laneway concept evolved through a need to move stock quickly and
efficiently. If you need to work with the mob furthest from the yards,
and you do not have a laneway, you're in trouble. Can you imagine
trying to bring a mob of animals, let alone deer, through five other
paddocks, three of which already have other mobs in them?
Which leads me to suppose that the term has been moved into Aussie
slang to denote an alley. No mention of the Poms.
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
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