<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr">sent from a phone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 27. Mar 2020, at 13:06, Paul Allen <pla16021@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>This is untrue of British English, when speaking of town squares. In geometry</div><div>a square is a particular shape, a subset of the class of rectangles, In the</div><div> geometrical sense objects can be square regardless of their function. But</div><div>when you're talking (in British English) about a town square you're talking</div><div>about a specific function, rather than the shape.</div></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>to give an example of an object which I would call a square (maybe not in English): <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.50997/-0.13430">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.50997/-0.13430</a></div><div><br></div><div>Piccadilly Circus (note the different word).</div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Martin </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>