[OSM-talk] I've added some amenity values to "Map Features" based on tag usage

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 11:03:01 GMT 2008


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:
>> <grammar-fascist>
>> The apostrophe is not correct anyway. It denotes a missed letter, in
>> this word-position it would be 'doctor is', as opposed to the
>> non-apostrophe version meaning 'belong to the the doctor' or plural doctors.
>
> I think you're thinking of "its" as in the news group
> alt.its.possessive.has.no.apostrophe -- it's an exception, not the
> rule.

But hey, there's nothing more funny than someone getting their
grammar-fascism wrong. :-)

Cheers,
Andy




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