On Feb 18, 2015 8:13 PM, Dave Swarthout daveswarth...@gmail.com wrote:
The French tried to prevent new words from creeping into what they
consider pure French too.
The most amusing of which I'm aware of makes the following names equivalent
in Canada: KFC, PFK, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Poulet
On 19/02/2015 8:33 AM, David Bannon wrote:
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 12:33 -0800, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
amenity=elsan_point ?
While it's opaque in the usa, at least it's not ambiguous.
or
amenity=checmical_toilet_disposal_point.
Bryce, here in Australia, we use a lot of UK terms (and frown on the
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
An alternative description found on camping/caravanning sites in the UK is a
Chemical Disposal Point or CDP.
Dudley
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:33:31 +1100
Subject: [Tagging] elsan v dump_station
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 12:33
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com
wrote:
An alternative description found on camping/caravanning sites in the UK is
a Chemical Disposal Point or CDP.
In the context of motor homes, CDP is fine.
In a general context, it's unclear what chemicals one might
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 15:11 -0800, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
Thus:
amenity=toilet_waste_dump
amenity=chemical_toilet_disposal
amenity=chemical_toilet_disposal_point
amenity=toilet_holding_tank_disposal
Is it fair to say that none of those terms are widely used ? But, yes,
valid. But please
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
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 23:06 +, 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.
