On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Kevin Kenny <[email protected]> wrote: > What procedure do you recommend for those of us who don't have expatriate > Britons on call?
Officially we should read the OSM wiki. ( We can also watch BBC America and/or cultivate expat Brit friends. :-) > We Americans are, as you are well aware, entirely ignorant > of cultures other than our own. (And would the thing be called by the same > word in Glasgow or Cardiff as it would in London?) Yeah, there's a reason the language is called English not British :-) There's even strong dialect in England even before you get to Scots. But they have a received standard that we can pretend is understood throughout the English speaking world. > To misquote Shaw (who, as an Irishman, could presumably take a neutral point > of view [yeah, right!]), the US and the UK are two nations divided by their > common language. Or even better, misquoting Churchill misquoting Shaw to us in the provinces ! > "The Queen's English? Of course I can speak the Queens English. I was born > in Queens." That's a lovely contrast of quotes ! :-) -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
