[OSM-talk] Alternative placenames?

[Abigail Brady]

On 5/28/07, Barnett, Phillip <Phillip.Barnett at itn.co.uk> wrote:
> Sorry, that was me being overly enthusiastic and straying too far south!
> The variant I removed is extremely uncommon, (verging on spelling
> mistake?)
> My standard test for typos is the Google score :
> Porthmadog (official Welsh spelling) gets 481,000 hits
> Portmadoc (official English spelling)gets 27,800 hits
> Porthmadoc gets 660 hits - down in the random noise sector of the
> internet...

I'd say this is one of the placenames, like Conwy/Conway, where the
old Anglicised version is now dead, even in English-only contexts, and
certainly wouldn't expect to see it on any maps.  Possibly it should
be in old_name:en, instead.

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Abi