I have heard the word "Signage" used from time to time to refer to the signs on or in a building or shop etc. I can't find it in any dictionary. Is it a correct word? I have also heard it used in a plural form which sounds awful: "Signages". Can it have a plural?

Hi Slackbladder (love the monicker).

For a full and frank discussion of this very topic, I suggest you click on: http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=12202&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5. Many lurid and convoluted posts about -age and all its misuses can be found there for your delectation!

Cheers

In the graphic design profession, signage refers to a system of signs, hopefully consistent within certain design and information parameters, though not always so. I constantly find myself muttering, "bad design, bad design" when stumbling around a hospital or airport looking for a specific room or area.
Don't know about "signages," but the sound of it makes me cringe a bit. Signage systems, maybe?

Thanks for the info.

(The Moniker, sadly, is related to "age" too (:!)

In reply to:

---

Thanks for the info.

(The Moniker, sadly, is related to "age" too (:!)

---

Lucky for you. If you ever visit a certain province in the South Island of New Zealand, your moniker could get you publicly stoned for blaspheming a local deity, would you not agree CapK?

Dunno, Max. Blasphemy works in two directions, and after the last test in Bordeaux ... well, even Cantabrians must have their limits when it comes to unreasoning adulation.