Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > Roger Price (12023-07-03): > > Exactly my point that inanimate objects of which there are many > > examples are best known by numbers. Numbers so well known that > > songs are written about the number: historic US 66 [1], and in > > France the historic N7 [2], a vacation highway. > > And you know which one is the N6 or the N8? Or the US route 65 or 67?
No but I live in the UK and I know the A1, A2, A4, A5, A6 and many others, plus the M1, M4, M5, M6. > The objects that are by their number are the exception, not the rule. There are roads whose 'numbers' I don't know but I don't know the 'names' of any of them except for rare exceptions such as 'the Great North Road'. But road numbers are mostly just labels, although there is a kind of system for allocating them.
