On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:09 PM, ael <law_ence....@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 09:34:24AM +0000, jonathan wrote: >> Here's my take from an Englishman! >> >> While the term dirt road is used here, it is much rarer as all > > From another English person, I would say that "dirt" in British English > is understood to mean the substance which causes something to be "not > clean". That is it is much wider in meaning than soil or earth. But it > is almost never used to mean soil or earth under your feet, although > that might be described as "dirty" or even "dirt" if telling a child to > avoid rolling in it.
Agreed --- I think of "dirt" in this sense as the American English equivalent of what in British English is usually called "earth" or "soil". __John (native British English speaker) _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
