On 2023-07-03, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk <debian-u...@howorth.org.uk> wrote: > Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: >> Roger Price (12023-07-03): >> > Exactly my point that inanimate objects of which there are many >> > examples are best known by numbers. Numbers so well known that >> > songs are written about the number: historic US 66 [1], and in >> > France the historic N7 [2], a vacation highway. >> >> And you know which one is the N6 or the N8? Or the US route 65 or 67? > > No but I live in the UK and I know the A1, A2, A4, A5, A6 and many > others, plus the M1, M4, M5, M6. > >> The objects that are by their number are the exception, not the rule. > > There are roads whose 'numbers' I don't know but I don't know the > 'names' of any of them except for rare exceptions such as 'the Great > North Road'. But road numbers are mostly just labels, although there is > a kind of system for allocating them. >
I only know Abbey Road and Penny Lane.
