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    What does this mean in English - - - -   Cul de Sac  ?


     Thank you ,


             J D 

    +3  Views: 1950 Answers: 5 Posted: 9 years ago
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    Dead end, but I didn't learn it in H.S. French. While driving and hitting dead ends, I finally figured it out!

    There are all kinds of definitions for it on the web. I liked this one:  




    1. cul, cul de sac, dead end(noun)


      a passage with access only at one end




    2. blind alley, cul de sac, dead-end street, impasse(noun)


      a street with only one way in or out



    mycatsmom

    Thx, Julie . But what is the literal translation ? ........Not just the dictionary definition.......
    jhharlan

    Read Bob's answer.....

    I used to live in a cul-de sac.It's just a fancy way of saying 'Dead End'.

    country bumpkin

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    I liked my cul-de sac. I lived at the end of Pork Chop Hill. :)
    Tommyh

    You lived in Korea???
    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    LOL...I lived on an old country road named Pork Chop Hill near Ft. Worth.
    Tommyh

    Did the name it as a tribute to Pork Chop Hill Korea? It was the location of a pretty prolonged seige during the war/police action there in the 50s.
    mycatsmom

    Tommy , Was Australia in the Korean War, too ?
    Tommyh

    It certainly was Julie.
    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    The story I heard Tommyh, was the road was named after the first person who lived there. I don't know what his name was, but he was nicknamed Pork Chop because he was a very large man. The road gradually went uphill so I guess this is why hill was added to the end.
    Tommyh

    Oh,OK,Just a coincidence.
    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    I loved living there Tommyh. I lived on top of the hill at the very end of the cul de sac. Most people frown upon people living in mobile homes, but I bought a brand new doublewide that was made out of logs. It looked just like a log cabin with a rock fireplace etc. It was beautiful. :)
    Tommyh

    I saw a lot of mobile homes in TX.I couldn't see anyting wrong with them.

    I looked up "cul de sac" in WIKIPEDIA, and this is the first paragraph, which doesn't even MENTION the French language!


    A cul-de-sac /?k?ld?sæk/, dead end (British, Canadian, American, South African English, and Australian English), closed, no through road (British, Canadian, and Australian English), no exit (New Zealand English) or court (Australian English) is a street with only one inlet/outlet. While historically built for other reasons, one of its modern uses is to calm vehicle traffic.

    Round here it is a dead end, but with a turn around at the end kinda like looking at a stick pin the straight part as the road and the head as the turn around.. 

    JDB

    P.S. also A dead end around here is just that.. you have to back up, hopefully find a spot to turn around.


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