Why do you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway? I am greatly vexed by this.asked by Lester14

Do you know the answer to this one?

I don't, actually.

Look at the word "way".

Mhmm... oh, "leads to"!

"Leads to," correct. So, "parkway" was originally designed-... or the term comes from driving through a park, where "driveway", it was originally something that you drove through - as they started adding more houses around, the driveway was something you drove through to get to locations. So the "driveway" and "parkway" term isn't necessarily what you're doing at that moment - even though you drive through a parkway. It's the thing that leads to that. Does that make sense? So when you leave your driveway, that's the thing that's putting you onto the drive way. So it's not actually a contradiction.

Hmm!