On 28 July 2011 12:06, Joseph Reeves <iknowjos...@gmail.com> wrote: > name: Magdalen Road > pronounced: More-da-lin Road > > ? > > That's ridiculous if you ask me. If you're making sat nav software for a > market (the UK, France, America, etc.) you should be able to work out these > things yourself.
why? in that instance, there are a lot of people in england who would pronounce that 'wrongly'. although as i said earlier, this is all socially constructed - there's no correct answer, and i'm not sure we should encourage that there is. -- robin http://bumblepuppy.org/blog/?p=237 - government bill to remove basic human rights in NZ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
