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Originally Posted by DMB
The American expression "Downtown" puzzled me for a long time. I think it's what we call the "city centre".
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Downtown probably sounds as odd to you as "High Street" does to us.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Muddying the waters, downtown in New York can also just be part of town south of where you are at that moment; it's directional as well as a specific location.
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I have seen "downtown" and "uptown" used in other cities too to mean south and north.