{"id":18789,"date":"2026-07-01T12:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18789"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:13:25","slug":"stroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2026\/07\/01\/stroad\/","title":{"rendered":"stroad"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>When I first encountered the word <i>stroad<\/i> (sometime in the past couple years), I was certain it was a typo. So I looked it up. And it turns out that nope, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stroad\">stroad<\/a> is \u201ca thoroughfare that combines the features of streets and roads.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Which confused me further, because in my usage, <i>street<\/i> and <i>road<\/i> are largely synonymous.<\/p>\r\n<p>But Wikipedia\u2019s entry for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Street\">street<\/a> says that \u201ccity residents and urban planners draw a significant modern distinction: a road's main function is transportation, while streets facilitate public interaction.\u201d So, for example, a highway is a road, not a street.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18792,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18789\/revisions\/18792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}