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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/04/2016 10:56 PM, Martin
Koppenhoefer wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2016-04-06 11:43 GMT+02:00 Tom
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remembers these keys and values on tags are computer
variables,<br>
not linguistic subtleties.<br>
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They are often influenced by the people who introduced
them.<br>
I see no value in being overly nitpicking here.</div>
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yes, it doesn't matter to the computer how we spell stuff, and
it won't typically be exposed to the end user, but still it
does matter, because mappers and data consumers will have it
easier if we adhere to a well defined spelling (e.g. like we
do: British English ortography). The few edge cases that
remain are those where BE offers equally valid spelling
variants.<br>
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I am tending towards shot-put .. as that is what is in the Oxford
dictionary (web search) ... and I would take that as THE British
English Language Reference. I would not want to propagate US English
in a BE usage preference data base. Precession in the words used may
help influence mappers in the precision they use in their entries.
Fingers crossed.<br>
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