[Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

Chris Hill osm at raggedred.net
Thu Mar 24 12:24:30 UTC 2016


I found 54 cemeteries with their names spelt cemetary in the GB extract from last night. I'm not going to run a bot to change any of them - what if that's what the sign on the gate actually says?    

On 24 March 2016 11:14:07 GMT+00:00, Stuart Reynolds <stuart at travelinesoutheast.org.uk> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>A user of our site alerted me to an incorrect spelling of “cemetery” in
>one location. I corrected it, and then readily found and corrected
>three more. However, after a very brief further search (using “cemetery
>uk”) I’ve easily found another 10. I could correct these manually, but
>I suspect that it is the tip of an iceberg.
>
>Can I propose that someone who is more knowledgeable than me does a
>mechanical edit within the UK to correct “Cemetary” to “Cemetery”?
>
>Regards, 
>Stuart Reynolds
>for traveline south east & anglia
>
>
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Cheers, Chris (chillly)
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