In article <37006tF56q1hsU1@individual.net>,
"I. R. Khan" <ir_khan@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I hope some one here can help me.
>
> There are boards hanging in the middle of roads (usually before road
> crossings) informing about coming routes and telling about the places where
> they are heading to and sometimes distance of those places as well. Is there
> some special name for these boards in English?
"Roadsigns." Ones which advertise products (rather than offer directions) are
called "billboards." Ones which tell you about laws (like speed limit
or stop) are sometimes called "roadsigns" and sometimes called "traffic control signs" or sometimes just called
whatever the sign is (like a "speed limit sign.")
If you mean the big green signs that hang OVER the road (you said "in
the middle of roads", and I'm not sure what that means), those are often
called "exit signs", as they typically tell you what this exit leads to,
which lane to use in order to exit a certain way, or how far to the next
several upcoming exits. Some people might call this last group "milage
signs."
I don't believe any of these have formal names, so you might hear
different people using different terms in different parts of the country.
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