[Tagging] Synonymous values in the shop key

[Philip Barnes]

On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 06:11 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There are some values of shop key that seem to be synonymous with other tags
> > and I want to confirm whatever it is true.
> > Unless mentioned otherwise all mentioned tags are values of key shop,
> > numeric values is occurrence count according to taginfo.
> > Before -> are values that IMHO should be replaced by value after ->.
> >
> > fish (368 and documented as replaced by seafood), fishmonger (2106 and
> > documented as replaced by seafood) -> seafood (2110)
> > delicatessen (108) -> deli (4101, documented)
> 
> A deli and a delicatessen are not the same thing. I'd say a
> delicatessen is a cuisine of restaurant, and a deli is a type of shop.
> 
In British English, delicatessen and deli are the same thing. Certainly
not a cuisine, I would not associate it with a restaurant.

A delicatessen, or deli, is either a shop (or a counter in supermarket)
selling cooked meats, cheeses, and other foods such as olives, pates.

Deli is a shortened version of delicatessen.

Phil (trigpoint)