Squares in Paris Clichy". The French use of the word "place", —— where, in the USA, the UK, Canada, etc., an English-speaker would use the word "square", —— follows the pattern established in other European languages: the Spanish use the cognate, "plaza" (like Madrid's "Plaza Mayor"); the Germans use "platz" (Berlin's "Potsdamer Platz"); the Italians use "piazza" (Rome's "Piazza Navona"); etc. So, in summary, the French have "squares" that might (or, more likely, might not) be called "squares" in English, and they use the word "place" to denote what an anglophone would almost certainly call a "square". To make things a bit more
Piazza (web service) Piazza (web service) Piazza is a Q&A web service. It can be described as "mixture between a wiki and a forum" that can be used with learning management systems. The word Piazza comes from the Italian word for plaza—a common city square where people can come together to share ideas and knowledge. Pooja Sankar created the first prototype of Piazza in 2009. By February 2010, Piazza was used by approximately 600 Stanford students. In January 2011, Piazza opened to all institutions, reaching over 330 schools and tens of thousands of students by the summer of the same year. While the