[Tagging] tagging sport=shotput or sport=shot_put?

[Warin]

On 6/04/2016 10:56 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> 2016-04-06 11:43 GMT+02:00 Tom Pfeifer <t.pfeifer at computer.org 
> <mailto:t.pfeifer at computer.org>>:
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>     Please remembers these keys and values on tags are computer variables,
>     not linguistic subtleties.
>
>     They are often influenced by the people who introduced them.
>     I see no value in being overly nitpicking here.
>
>
>
> yes, it doesn't matter to the computer how we spell stuff, and it 
> won't typically be exposed to the end user, but still it does matter, 
> because mappers and data consumers will have it easier if we adhere to 
> a well defined spelling (e.g. like we do: British English ortography). 
> The few edge cases that remain are those where BE offers equally valid 
> spelling variants.
>
>

I am tending towards shot-put .. as that is what is in the Oxford 
dictionary (web search) ... and I would take that as THE British English 
Language Reference. I would not want to propagate US English in a BE 
usage preference data base. Precession in the words used may help 
influence mappers in the precision they use in their entries. Fingers 
crossed.
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