On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:49 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > The local TV and radio here is broadcast from Belmont. The structure is often > called Belmont mast, as are other tall broadcast structures. Belmont mast was > until 2007 the tallest structure in the UK, so size is not the key. It is > guyed. A mast can be a lattice tower, rarely if ever guyed, often now with > many microwave dishes on it. Mast would be my first choice to describe it, > but I do recognise tower too. It may be a somewhat regional phrase even > within the UK.
Yes, as a native UK English speaker, I'd call a guyed metal structure a mast, and not a tower. > A tower, to this Brit, can be confused with the stone or brick thing on the > end of a church or castle or the building on an airfield where a radio > operator or controller works. These would never be a mast +1 --- for me (UK English), "tower" implies brickwork or stone. __John _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
