[OSM-talk] pronunciation tag

Jannis Achstetter krippi at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 15:16:40 BST 2008


elvin ibbotson schrieb:
> 2008/6/24 SteveC <steve at asklater.com <mailto:steve at asklater.com>>:
> 
>> So it would be nice if we could tag how things sound as well as what
>> they're called.
> 
> First you need to decide how things sound. For example, Redcar is 
> pronounced Redker by locals but red car by most others and Greenhill (in 
> my home town of Sheffield) is known as Gren'l by Sheffielders (unless, 
> perhaps, they're trying to sound posh) but green hill by all you other 
> folk. A friend from London would not believe it was not pronounced green 
> hill but would have laughed at me if I'd pronounced Greenwich green 
> witch. There must be thousands of similar examples and this is one 
> reason English can never be written phonetically without sacrificing 
> regional dialect. This is less problematic for some other languages, but 
> then non-native speakers often mess things up (listen to Brits or 
> Americans ordering zuchini or chorizo). Maybe we should just concentrate 
> on spelling things right :-)

Very good point ;)
so, how about doing the same things as we do with names?
pronounciation=XXX
pronounciation:loc=XXX
So everybody is happy then, leave it to the mapper what to make the 
"official" pronounciation

Jannis

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