[Tagging] English grammar and back seat drivers Re: Tagging Digest, Vol 96, Issue 3

[Warin]

Shop assistants// SELL shoes over a SALES counter.

They do not "sales shoes over a a sales counter".

It is English .. and has peculiarities.

For the OSM tagging .. use sells not sales, sells makes 'English' sense 
in that context.

On 04-Sep-17 02:46 AM, Thilo Haug wrote:
>
> Why don't they call it a sale counter, then ?
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/shop_subtags
>
>
> Am 03.09.2017 um 14:42 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
>>
>>
>> sent from a phone
>>
>> On 3. Sep 2017, at 09:46, Thilo Haug <thaug at gmx.de 
>> <mailto:thaug at gmx.de>> wrote:
>>
>>> "sells" is a verb (the action of doing something),
>>> while "sales" is a noun
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun
>>
>>
>> actually sales is the plural of the noun "sale". Why would you use 
>> the plural in this context? Especially as it typically means "a 
>> period during which a shop or dealer sells goods at reduced prices."
>>
>> I agree that the word "sells" is better  for use as a tag, a verb is 
>> ok for a property, a plural noun less so, and even less as it's 
>> highly ambiguous in this case.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>

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