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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-12-10 15:40, Marc Gemis wrote :<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I wonder whether there is a scenario that a
non-native speaker sees the abbreviation and wants to look up
this abbreviation in OSM, but cannot find it because only the
full (expanded) name is in OSM.
<div>If so, we would need both names in OSM (or another DB).</div>
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I wonder if anybody minds so little, after all.<br>
Ha! Computers? Don't work ;-)<br>
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I came back to your message after reading this in the next one..<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Si ... , je préférerais le Vaudrée ... .</blockquote>
Il y a de bonnes entrecôtes au Waudrée ;-)<br>
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It's been months I'm spelling the restaurant name Vaudrée correctly
and he replies like that in the same message. And we never missed a
single rendezvous ;-)<br>
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<div>p.s. I used to live in a street named after a saint. In
informal talks we always dropped the saint part.</div>
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Same for "Romeinse steenweg straat"=="rue de la Chaussée" -> "rue
Chaussée"=="straat met schoenen"!<br>
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