On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:21:51AM +1100, Warin wrote: > > But English is not 'clean'. So I would say (in speach) 'a shop for > motorcycles' .. but 'a motorcyle shop' so plural then singular. Or'a shop for > alcohol' .. but 'an alcohol shop' so singular in both cases. Or 'a shop for > shoes' .. but 'a shoe shop' so againplural then singular.
IIRC in some textbook I read that in "a shoe shop", "shoe" is not singular, it isn't plural (to say nothing of the Saxon genitive), it's the stem; I'm not sure they were right, though. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
