-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Browet wrote: > It's fairly standard usage, you see a doctor at the doctors, a butcher > runs the butchers. There should really be an apostrophe in there I > think, ie: the butcher's shop, the doctor's surgery. But that's not > really how people think of it. Just stick both on and point out > everyone else's bad grammar :-) > > > Please bear with non-native english speaker. I agree we all use english > for easyness but those subtleties seem far-fetched. > Let's keep it simple and avoid the > "non-grammatically-correct-possessive-case". > > I think the tag value should represent a concept, not be grammatically > correct. > We might as well use "A124" or whatever. If everybody agrees it means a > doctor amenity in whatever language, the goal is reached. > Obviously, it's far less mnemonic, though... :-) > > - Chris - > <grammar-fascist> The apostrophe is not correct anyway. It denotes a missed letter, in this word-position it would be 'doctor is', as opposed to the non-apostrophe version meaning 'belong to the the doctor' or plural doctors. Doctors' is just silly but would be technically correct(ish) for multiple doctors (plural) </grammar-fascist> I hope we all enjoyed that. Given that the tags are in use, I'm going to pull rank & declare a special interest ;) - use amenity=doctors. DrMark
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