2014-07-18 17:55 GMT+02:00 Jesse B. Crawford <je...@jbcrawford.us>: > Something I've noticed as an American that works with many foreign > nationals is that the majority of people who learn English in a foreign > country seem to learn British English - my sample may be biased since I > work with a lot of people from India, which is a former colony, but amongst > people from China and Germany for example I am also used to seeing the > British spellings. > > Even being part of the (small around here it seems) group that's > inconvenienced by it, I think that it's important that the project > standardize on British English. In the case of existing tags people will > hopefully tend to use the spelling that's already predominant, but new tags > are being added at such a rate that it's still an issue. > > In the case of jewellery vs. jewelry (the former of which upsets my en_US > spellchecker), I would encourage automatically correcting "jewelry" as a > spelling error. Yes, there is value to looking at what tags currently > exist, but people who are writing queries against the dataset shouldn't > have to write several other queries just to take a guess at which spelling > is the "accepted" one. >
American English is a fork... ;) -- Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France
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