<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-05-12 7:05 GMT+02:00 Andrew Errington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erringtona@gmail.com" target="_blank">erringtona@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div>"Is there any good reason to avoid changing existing surface=brick to<br>
surface=bricks?"<br><br></div></span>Yes. In English, brick can be an adjective as well as a noun. As an adjective, as it is here, it should have no "s".</blockquote></div><br><br>why do we use an adjective for bricks when we use nouns for the other surface values describing materials, like asphalt, gravel, ground, dirt, grass, concrete, paving_stones...?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Martin<br></div></div>