[Tagging] British English Spelling shop=jewelry

[John Packer]

Should british english be preferred? Yes.
Do we need to change shop=jewelry to shop=jewellery? No.

Not remembering the spelling is not an issue when a tag is well-established.
If you try to add this tag in most editors, you will either use a preset or
will have auto-complete help you with the spelling.
That's not something that "will" happen, it's something that already
happens.

Jesse, as far as I know, AE is predominant in South America.


2014-07-18 13:01 GMT-03:00 Christian Quest <cquest at openstreetmap.fr>:

> 2014-07-18 17:55 GMT+02:00 Jesse B. Crawford <jesse at jbcrawford.us>:
>
> Something I've noticed as an American that works with many foreign
>> nationals is that the majority of people who learn English in a foreign
>> country seem to learn British English - my sample may be biased since I
>> work with a lot of people from India, which is a former colony, but amongst
>> people from China and Germany for example I am also used to seeing the
>> British spellings.
>>
>> Even being part of the (small around here it seems) group that's
>> inconvenienced by it, I think that it's important that the project
>> standardize on British English. In the case of existing tags people will
>> hopefully tend to use the spelling that's already predominant, but new tags
>> are being added at such a rate that it's still an issue.
>>
>> In the case of jewellery vs. jewelry (the former of which upsets my en_US
>> spellchecker), I would encourage automatically correcting "jewelry" as a
>> spelling error. Yes, there is value to looking at what tags currently
>> exist, but people who are writing queries against the dataset shouldn't
>> have to write several other queries just to take a guess at which spelling
>> is the "accepted" one.
>>
>
>
> American English is a fork... ;)
>
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