[Tagging] Townhouse

[Volker Schmidt]

Yes, I know - I  know that when you buy a "townhouse" in the UK  it means
it's terraced.
My only point was that Wikipedia is a precise source of reference for this
discussion (at least the English version - it's a bit problematic with the
translations)


On 21 July 2014 11:47, SomeoneElse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:

> On 21/07/2014 10:29, Volker Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Wikipedia is rather precise on the different meanings - see my earlier
>> post with links.
>>
>> Volker
>>
>
> Sure - I understand that you were correctly flagging the ambiguity
> associated with the term, but what I was saying was that one of those three
> definitions doesn't match any common usage in British English of which I'm
> aware.
>
> For example, if you said "X is a townhouse" you wouldn't think that X was
> where Lord so-and-so lived while not at his country pile, but if you said
> "X is the town house of Lord so-and-so" it would.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
>
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