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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I'm a native English speaker and I've absolutely never used the terms "cul-de-sac" and "dead end" interchangeably. I don't recall anyone ever using the terms interchangeably, either.
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that's my experience as well.
and hence my confusion from the thread title.
my general rule of thumb:
- if a no outlet side-street ends in a circular turn-around drive, it's a "cul-de-sac".
- if a no outlet side-street ends in the 8' high concrete wall of a cemetery, it's a "dead-end".
if the tread had been titled "urban dead-ends", i would have known
EXACTLY what the OP was talking about.