[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tag:traffic_calming=hillocky
Paul Allen
pla16021 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 20 12:16:18 UTC 2020
On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 11:52, Peter Elderson <pelderson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd say they are small mounds.
>
Talk to an archaeologist and mounds can be quite large. Talk to
a baseball player and mounds are smaller than archaeological
mounds but still quite a bit larger than these speed bumps.
>
> Hillock sounds too, er, hilly.
>
Indeed. Hillocks are small hills. Bigger than mounds.
Sadly, the manufacturers and purveyors of these things haven't
come up with a name for this particular type of speed bump,
other than proprietary, trademarked names like "Dura-bump,"
and we can't use trademarked names when they are
available from more than one manufacturer under
different trademarked names.
Even if we decide that "hillock" is a suitable description
the tag should be "hillocks" not "hillocky." A noun, not an
adjective. Plural because it takes more than one of them to
constitute a traffic calming measure.
They still look about the size and shape of molehills to me.
I suspect that "molehill" will enter the vernacular as a
way of referring to them - if they look like molehills...
--
Paul
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