<p dir="ltr">Then there's Canada, which freely uses both spellings as equally acceptable... </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 18, 2014 12:53 PM, "John Packer" <<a href="mailto:john.packer7@gmail.com">john.packer7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Should british english be preferred? Yes.<br></div>Do we need to change shop=jewelry to shop=jewellery? No.<br><br></div>Not remembering the spelling is not an issue when a tag is well-established.<br>
If you try to add this tag in most editors, you will either use a preset or will have auto-complete help you with the spelling.<br></div><div>That's not something that "will" happen, it's something that already happens.<br>
</div><br></div>Jesse, as far as I know, AE is predominant in South America.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-07-18 13:01 GMT-03:00 Christian Quest <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cquest@openstreetmap.fr" target="_blank">cquest@openstreetmap.fr</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2014-07-18 17:55 GMT+02:00 Jesse B. Crawford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jesse@jbcrawford.us" target="_blank">jesse@jbcrawford.us</a>></span>:<div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Something I've noticed as an American that works with many foreign nationals is that the majority of people who learn English in a foreign country seem to learn British English - my sample may be biased since I work with a lot of people from India, which is a former colony, but amongst people from China and Germany for example I am also used to seeing the British spellings.<br>
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Even being part of the (small around here it seems) group that's inconvenienced by it, I think that it's important that the project standardize on British English. In the case of existing tags people will hopefully tend to use the spelling that's already predominant, but new tags are being added at such a rate that it's still an issue.<br>
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In the case of jewellery vs. jewelry (the former of which upsets my en_US spellchecker), I would encourage automatically correcting "jewelry" as a spelling error. Yes, there is value to looking at what tags currently exist, but people who are writing queries against the dataset shouldn't have to write several other queries just to take a guess at which spelling is the "accepted" one.<br>
</blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><br clear="all"><div>American English is a fork... ;)<span><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">-- <br>
<div dir="ltr">Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France</div>
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