[Tagging] Jewellery shop

John F. Eldredge john at jfeldredge.com
Sat Jul 3 18:50:34 BST 2010


Jewelry is the usual spelling in the USA, although I have occasionally seen the two-L spelling.

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John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hill <osm at raggedred.net>
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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:18:03 
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Subject: Re: [Tagging] Jewellery shop

Niklas Cholmkvist wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I have seen http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop=jewelry
>> Undoubtedly the spelling is not acceptable in en_IN
>>
> On wiktionary there is info that "jewellery" is a "chiefly US" spelling.
> source: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/en/wiki/jewelry
>
I fear you have this back-to-front.

jewellery is the UK spelling.
jewelry is the US spelling.

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Cheers, Chris
user: chillly


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