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
>
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