On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Ulf Lamping wrote: > There was a discussion on this list about doctors vs. doctor and the > conclusion was to use doctors, as this was more "natural" for native > speakers. > > I don't regard this as purely chaotic ... > > Regards, ULFL
doctors is a contraction of doctor's (doctors') surgery. the example in the wiki specifically says not to use butchers which is exactly the same contraction from butcher's or butchers' shop neither doctors nor doctor on the wiki are marked as being accepted i gave it as a simple example of where there is no clear guidance in the wiki but the editors have caused compliance with one form _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
