[Tagging] Feature proposal - RFC - Pipes/tunnels inlets (or intakes?)

[Peter Neale]

As a native British English speaker of almost 70 years' experience (the value depends on exactly when you deem me to have started talking!), I have no difficulty with "inlet" for any pipe / culvert where the fluid, or gas, goes in.  
Yes, it is also used for a place where the sea extends inland, but I think that the context is sufficient to avoid confusion.  Searches for "inlet" might bring up both, but I cannot think of another term that is suitable.   
I associate "intake" with a jet engine sucking air in, or similar industrial application with suction, so it might be applicable in some cases, but I feel that "inlet" would be much more widely applicable and understood.
Regards,Peter
 Peter Neale 
(aka PeterPan99) 

    On Sunday, 17 October 2021, 09:44:45 BST, Andrew Davidson <theswavu at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 On 17/10/21 10:18 am, François Lacombe wrote:
> 
> I'm still puzzled about the choice of inlet=* or intake=* for this proposal.
> Inlet could conflicts with places where sea enters on the ground while 
> intake=* sounds more specific to mechanics.
> Could a native British English person could help solve this please?

Strangely both UK and US English use the term inlet:

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/engineering/hydraulics/pubs/10009/10009.pdf

(See 4-29)

https://www.standardsforhighways.co.uk/prod/attachments/a869ed8e-4470-4286-aef4-7d11af24a597



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