On Mon Nov 2 09:13:39 2015 GMT, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > Am 01.11.2015 um 13:01 schrieb Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl>: > > > > Is a pharmacy not the same as shop=chemist with dispensing=yes? > > > isn't a chemist the same as a drug store? Around here there are 3 types of > "shops": pharmacies, "parapharmacies" (dispensing no), drug stores > (misleading name, they sell anything but drugs, etc. detergents, tooth brush, > baby food, beverages and sweets, sometimes foto "development", toilet paper, > stationery, nutrition supplements, (cheaper) make up, ...) > In British English a chemist and pharmacy are the same and used interchangeably . Pharmacy has only been used in recent years, when I was growing up it was always a chemist.
Older people still tend to use chemist. Phil (trigpoint) -- Sent from my Jolla _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
