Talk:Asphalt
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Bitumen and asphalt are both naturally occuring minerals that are used in various combinations to create a very durable surface suitable for roads. The finished combination is often called tarmac which, strictly speaking, is incorrect. Tarmac is short for "tar-macadam", meaning a coating of tar (or bitumen) on the surface of a macadamised road - this being the near-universal modern method of road construction invented by John MacAdam near the end of the 18th Century. It involves laying a well-drained foundation of large stones, overlaid with crushed rock, which is bound with gravel, watered, and compacted to form a tough, durable roadway which can shed rainwater and stand up to heavy traffic. MacAdam built experimental roads on his private estate in Scotland, then became responsible for road building in the Bristol area, and was eventually made surveyor-general of roads in England. By the end of the 19th Century, his methods had been adopted all over the world. With the rise of the bicycle and the motor car came the final refinment: spreading a thin layer of asphalt over the surface of a macadised road to form "tar-macadam" or, as it is called today, "tarmac".
- It seems that Karen's keyboard is running hot. I'll go find an area where I don't have to type so fast! Tannin
I'm not all that proficient in English, and do not know what "roofing shingles" mean. Kdict offers the following explanations for 'shingles':
1) Eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia 2) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
Niether of which seems appropriate. Is there a typo here, or do shingles mean tiles? Cederal
Yep: shingles is effectively another word for tiles: in Australia at least I'd use to mean small tiles, typically made of wood, but can't speak for other forms of english. --GPoss 09:37, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Ashphalt
The mis-spelling is not rare, as a Google search shows, and the mis-pronounciation is not rare either (I didn't know it was a mis-pronounciation). Brianjd 06:18, 2004 Dec 12 (UTC)
- Brianjd, I'm afraid I have to disagree with you here if you are going to use Google to back this up. There are 8,510 hits for ashphalt vs. 5,070,000 hits for asphalt, so that is a rate of about 1 misspelling in 1,000, which is definitely uncommon—moreover it seems like there is actually a band or song with the neologism "ashphalt" in it so not all of these are actually misspellings for asphalt. If every misspelling that occurred at a rate of 1 in 1000 or more was included in Wikipedia, then most of the entries in Wikipedia would need a section containing a litany of misspellings. I am going to take this back out. Please do not revert this unless you can provide a new justification as to why this is an exceptional enough misspelling to mention here. NTK 06:27, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Mispronounciation
If find it hard to believe that asphalt is one of the most mispronounced words in the english language. Sources? I personally have never heard the pronounciation "ashfalt". Everyone I know says "asfalt". But maybe I live a sheltered life? :-) 137.222.40.132 13:35, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
- I've heard several Canadian and one least one Aussie engineer pronounce it "Ash-falt". I always figured it was a Commonwealth thing like "Aluminium". The fact that I've heard it from the lips of folks who deal with the stuff on a daily basis leads me to think of it as a regional pronounciation rather than a mis-pronounciation. I can't recall ever hearing that pronounciation from someone born and raised in the US. Toiyabe 19:43, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
- Canadian's in my experience typically pronounce it as ashfalt.--65.94.105.144 01:26, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
- This is correct. You will be hard-pressed to find a Canadian who doesn't pronounce it as ashfalt or ashfault. However, in our own little corner of the world, ashfalt/ashfault is, indeed, the correct pronounciation, and you will be corrected if you don't start the word with ash. Snickerdo 05:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- I agree, as far as Canadians are concerned (being one myself), the proper pronunciation, given our own little dialect, is "ash-fault". However, the proper spelling does remain "asphalt", as far as technical fields are concerned at least (I'm currently in a chemical engineering program).
- This is correct. You will be hard-pressed to find a Canadian who doesn't pronounce it as ashfalt or ashfault. However, in our own little corner of the world, ashfalt/ashfault is, indeed, the correct pronounciation, and you will be corrected if you don't start the word with ash. Snickerdo 05:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- Canadian's in my experience typically pronounce it as ashfalt.--65.94.105.144 01:26, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
I have also heard "ash-falt" many times in Ireland, especially from my father. He is a civil engineer, now retired. On searching in google for "Ireland Ashphalt" there were 34,800 hits. A lot less than the 1.280.000 hits for "Ireland Asphalt" but still enough to show that it is, or at least was for my father's generation, an acceptable pronunciation. The rate in this case is 1 in 50 and not 1 in 1000 as stated by NTK.—This unsigned comment was added by 83.40.166.254 (talk • contribs) .
Regarding British pronounciation, I've found between English, Scottish and Welsh-English speakers it is either "ass-felt" or "ass-fall-t". --Myfanwy 16:02, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
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It would be interesting to learn more about the history of the technology, and the reasons why it has changed. -- Beland 00:50, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Low Temperature Mixing Section
Anybody mind if I remove the "Low Temperature Mixing Section". It is huge, irrelevant and wholy copied from an external source. If anything it should be put into a separate article. However an external link should suffice. Toiyabe 17:59, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
