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> On 27. Mar 2020, at 13:06, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is untrue of British English, when speaking of town squares. In geometry > a square is a particular shape, a subset of the class of rectangles, In the > geometrical sense objects can be square regardless of their function. But > when you're talking (in British English) about a town square you're talking > about a specific function, rather than the shape. to give an example of an object which I would call a square (maybe not in English): https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.50997/-0.13430 Piccadilly Circus (note the different word). Is this a town square for British people? I notice the English WP seems to avoid the word square (although it then calls it a plaza), while both, Italian and German, have the word piazza / Platz in the subtitle. Cheers Martin
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