Thank you Miss Elaine Eos for your reply.
You said Traffic Control Signs can also be called Roadsigns. If I
specifically want to mention about roadsigns giving directions, will it be
correct to use a phrase "Roadsigns that offer directions"?
From "hanging in the MIDDLE of roads", I meant hanging OVER the road. Sorry
for my poor English.
In Japan we have roadsigns in BLUE background with white text for directions
on normal roads, and GREEN background with white text on toll roads (where
you have to pay).
"Miss Elaine Eos" <Misc@*your-shoes*PlayNaked.com> wrote in message
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> 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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