On 31/08/15 13:54, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:32:24 +0100 > [email protected] wrote: > >> > This may just be a language thing, but in my dictionary the mulch >> > material is woodchip, so the incorrect spelling is woodchips ... >> > unless one is using it as a fuel for an 'eco' power plant. So is the >> > mistake simply because people are translating from other languages? > What dictionary is giving this definition?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodchips is in plural form, according to > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/woodchip woodchip is for a single > mechanically produced chip of wood. > > In my printed dictionaries (Polish-English and English-Polish, one by > Oxford University Press and second by Wiedza Powszechna) neither term > appears. Back in the office now ... that post should have gone to the list as well :( I'm just watching a item on the telly about biomass and processing woodchip to it's various sizes for the jobs it's destined for. On google woodchip produces results ... woodchips does not ... so in my book surface=woodchips is what is wrong! Playground areas are covered with woodchip or bark as one of the approved safety requirements although it's not uncommon to use the term wood fibre to cover the whole range of material. Will add notes to the soil/dirt thread but equestrian surfaces using wood chip or soil have more stringent requirements in relation to dust control. 'dirt' tends to imply a dusty surface, something one would not expect with a better managed soil surface. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
