[Tagging] Adding water=fishpond to the wiki

Andy Mabbett andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
Mon Jan 5 09:33:32 UTC 2015


On 4 January 2015 at 19:56, Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com> wrote:

> A fishpond isn't used for fishing. It's used for farming fish.

That's a very a narrow definition, and doesn't accord with common
usage, at least in the UK, where a fish pond can be a garden pond for
keeping ornamental fish; or a lake used for recreational fishing, or
one used in past times as a food source. A Google image search for
"fish pond" illustrates these types:

    https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fishpond&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=VVmqVN-5MIPeaMnngDg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1366&bih=657

See also:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_pond

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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
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