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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Very interesting. Thank you, Richard. </FONT>"Doctor's" sounds a bit common to me. "Surgery" is far better...</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Cheers,</DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>De:</B> talk-bounces@openstreetmap.org en nombre de Richard Fairhurst<BR><B>Enviado el:</B> vie 31/10/2008 10:20<BR><B>Para:</B> OSM-Talk<BR><B>Asunto:</B> Re: [OSM-talk] I've added some amenity values to "MapFeatures" based on tag usage<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Mark Williams wrote:<BR><BR>> The apostrophe is not correct anyway. It denotes a missed letter, in<BR>> this word-position it would be 'doctor is', as opposed to the<BR>> non-apostrophe version meaning 'belong to the the doctor' or plural <BR>> doctors.<BR><BR>Heehee, don't get me started.<BR><BR>"doctor's" is the appropriate usage to denote possession ("belonging <BR>to the doctor"). And it does denote a missed letter... just a long <BR>while ago.<BR><BR>The Old English genitive of *doctor would have been "doctores", with <BR>something similar carried through into Middle English, and that "e" <BR>is what the apostrophe is replacing.<BR><BR>cheers<BR>Richard<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>talk mailing list<BR>talk@openstreetmap.org<BR><A href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>