On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:47 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/7/4 Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com>: >> I'm not advocating for wrong spelling, but I don't think hyphenation >> is part of spelling, but of grammar/syntax. Wikipedia says that >> "spelling is the writing of one or more words with letters and >> diacritics" and hyphens are neither letters nor diacritics but is a >> punctuation mark. > > well, wikipedia also says that hyphens are sometimes used as diacritics: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic > > ;-)
[off-list] Well, I'd certainly like to see you try and convince people that the hyphen in "drive-through" is actually a diacritic all along. ;-) _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
