Indeed Dave, here there is a lot of resistance to "American Spelling", we like to put a 'u' in colour, honour etc. Joke is, the American way is the older (and therefore correct ?) way.
Seems you lot took (eg) 'color' with you on the Mayfair at a time when English did spell it 'color' and later it evolved a 'u'. And we, the Aussies, got that later version ! Cute ? David On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 09:10 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote: > Bryce, here in Australia, we use a lot of UK terms (and frown on the > horrid American ones creeping into our vocabulary). But no one here > uses > Elsan. > > > Now, now David. There is a reason those "horrid American" terms are > creeping into your vocabulary. The French tried to prevent new words > from creeping into what they consider pure French too. But all such > efforts are doomed to failure because languages are constantly > evolving. If a word is useful and popular, it becomes part of the > local vocabulary. Recently the Oxford English Dictionary added "yada > yada" to its massive list of entries. You and I might disagree on that > but it is included in the OED nonetheless. > > > Sorry, I just had to respond <g> > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:55 AM, David Bannon > <dban...@internode.on.net> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 23:06 +0000, Dudley Ibbett wrote: > > An alternative description found on camping/caravanning > sites in the > > UK is a "Chemical Disposal Point" or CDP. > > > Wow, think so ? As I see it, "dump station" is likely to be > recognised > in at least North (and maybe South) America and Australia. On > the other > hand, my guess is "Chemical Disposal Point" works only in the > UK and > would be totally confusing to everyone else in the world. > > We are not disposing of chemicals, its chemically contaminated > human > waste. > > CDP - probably even worse, how many other things does this > stand for ? > I tried googling and even with lots of hints, did not get a > valid hit. > > > David > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > > > -- > Dave Swarthout > Homer, Alaska > Chiang Mai, Thailand > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging