<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Malcolm Herring <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:malcolm.herring@btinternet.com" target="_blank">malcolm.herring@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><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"><span class="">On 29/05/2015 08:41, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:<br>
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Why is this a property of the dock,<br>
rather than a property of the water body.<br>
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A dock is a body of water. It may or may not be separated from a connecting river or sea by a lock or single gate.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ah, that sense of the word.</div><div>Among USA English laypeople, dock is going to be almost universally interpreted as a synonym for pier:<br></div><div><a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dock">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dock</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>To avoid confusion with pier, is there an alternative term that OSM can use for</div></div><div>receiving waters?</div><div><br></div><div>The miss-tagging reported on this list may be rooted in confusion over what type of dock is meant.</div></div></div></div>