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

[Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio]

Very interesting. Thank you, Richard. "Doctor's" sounds a bit common to me. "Surgery" is far better...
 
Cheers,
Lucas
 

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De: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org en nombre de Richard Fairhurst
Enviado el: vie 31/10/2008 10:20
Para: OSM-Talk
Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] I've added some amenity values to "MapFeatures" based on tag usage



Mark Williams wrote:

> 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.

Heehee, don't get me started.

"doctor's" is the appropriate usage to denote possession ("belonging 
to the doctor"). And it does denote a missed letter... just a long 
while ago.

The Old English genitive of *doctor would have been "doctores", with 
something similar carried through into Middle English, and that "e" 
is what the apostrophe is replacing.

cheers
Richard

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