[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - spring:name

[Paul Allen]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 23:25, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Am Mo., 28. Dez. 2020 um 16:47 Uhr schrieb Francesco Ansanelli <
> francians at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> Look this tap:
>>
>>
>> https://www.google.com/maps/@44.487297,7.2575213,3a,90y,310.39h,81.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQDvVTMkwyWUkKuvUptk4Lw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
>>
>>
> maybe I am misguided, but I thought of a "tap" as a device to control the
> water flow.
>

In British English, yes.  Called a faucet on the other side of the pond.
Derives from the device used to tap into a barrel of beer, which has
a spigot/faucet built in.

The thing in the picture looks like an outlet without a valve and I am not
> sure it would be called a "tap"?
>

Hard to be sure from that image, but there doesn't appear to be any
mechanism to control the flow.  So it's not a tap.

It looks like a drinking fountain.  Fount and font are cognates of
fountain and are sometimes used interchangeably.  This thing
is called "fonte..." and it looks like a drinking fountain.  It might
be fed by a spring, if so the spring might be directly underneath
or some distance away.  All that can be verified by inspection
is that it's a drinking fountain, although there may be other
evidence recorded somewhere that it is fed by a spring.

-- 
Paul
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