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Originally Posted by CRussel
"awhile"??!! Even if the author got it wrong, the editor should have caught that one! However, sidewalk for footpath (or, I suppose, pavement) is the sort of thing that even a fairly aware American writer would likely miss. And if the editor was also American, that would likely slip through.
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Pavement would be the normal British English word, although footpath would be OK, too. "Sidewalk" just isn't a British word.