Me either, but there it is. I wouldn't give it much chance of gathering world wide approval as a classification term but maybe I'm wrong.
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Tod Fitch <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't think it was a word and my old American dictionary does not have > it. But my microprint edition of the Oxford English Dictionary does have it > and lists it use in 1899 regarding how the streets in London were able to > carry traffic. Certainly not a word that I, as an American English speaker, > would have come up with. > > -Tod > > > > On Jan 3, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Andy Townsend wrote: > > > > > On 03/01/14 16:06, Volker Schmidt wrote: > >> I first reacted in the same way ("is it an English word at all?"). But > then I looked it up on Wikipedia. There it is, since 2006(!), with correct > Google translations in several other languages. > > > > Well, the English wikipedia is also used by people whose first language > is American rather than English! :) > > > > The online definitions for it that I've seen seem to be mostly in > American dictionaries, with this Australian one: > > > > http://vro.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vrosite.nsf/pages/soilhealth_traffic > > > > which actually talks about things from the ground's point of view, > rather than the vehicle's, and so has a different meaning to the proposal. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Andy > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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