[Tagging] surface=brick -> surface=bricks?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2015-05-12 7:05 GMT+02:00 Andrew Errington <erringtona at gmail.com>:

> "Is there any good reason to avoid changing existing surface=brick to
> surface=bricks?"
>
> 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".



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...?

Cheers,
Martin
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