2006-06-23 04:51:47 · 8 answers · asked by Desy 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Actually, there was a reason to it. Picture a person's body... the body itself, with a rounded shoulder at each side. Long ago someone decided that a road was much the same...picture looking at a road at ground level...main body of the road in the middle, rounded shoulder at each side (for drainage). That's basically it.
Hope this helped.
2006-06-23 04:59:00 · answer #1 · answered by answerman63 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because a shoulder is what people "lean or rest on" and it is considered a strong part of the body (example: Atlas held the world on his shoulders), and is considered the side of where a weight would be carried across the back - so you would want to rest your vehicle on a shoulder, not an arm or knee or other part in comparisons between body and road.
2006-06-23 05:16:25 · answer #2 · answered by still learning at 56 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called a shoulder ,because the long arm of the law has to be attached to something . Otherwise they would never find the road .
2006-06-23 04:59:33 · answer #3 · answered by Animal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called a hard shoulder in Uk
2006-06-23 11:16:18 · answer #4 · answered by ftmshk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Knee? You are really out there
2006-06-23 04:53:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can call it that if you want too. But you're going to sound silly.
2006-06-23 04:53:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because you must be a true blonde...
they also call it a side
2006-06-23 04:56:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why not a belley
2006-06-23 04:54:48 · answer #8 · answered by Harold T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋