Since OSM uses British English, what word would you pair with road, as in "dirt road?"
Earthen road? Inquiring minds want to know. J Sent from my iPad > On Mar 14, 2014, at 10:18 PM, John Sturdy <jcg.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:09 PM, ael <law_ence....@ntlworld.com> wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 09:34:24AM +0000, jonathan wrote: >>> Here's my take from an Englishman! >>> >>> While the term dirt road is used here, it is much rarer as all >> >> From another English person, I would say that "dirt" in British English >> is understood to mean the substance which causes something to be "not >> clean". That is it is much wider in meaning than soil or earth. But it >> is almost never used to mean soil or earth under your feet, although >> that might be described as "dirty" or even "dirt" if telling a child to >> avoid rolling in it. > > Agreed --- I think of "dirt" in this sense as the American English > equivalent of what in British English is usually called "earth" or > "soil". > > __John (native British English speaker) > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
