On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 13:00 -0700, Glom wrote: > ng, I have a question for Eugene Alvin Villar that wrote today > about potable. > Is it so that potable is recognized as the "correct" word and if you > here or read drinkable it will suggest that the person writing it do > not know the correct word? Do that mean that potable and drinkable do > not have different meaning, more than potabel having a clear offical > weight to it? That is, Potable is the scientific term and will be used by those in 'The Trade'. The only person I have ever heard use the term was a friend who worked for the water company. I only understood it as a French word. That was several years ago, and until this thread I had not come across the word used in English.
I have never, in the UK, seen a tap labeled as Potable. It will not be generally understood. A tap, directly fed from with mains water, in the UK, is always drinkable. In large buildings, such as schools and factories there is often a cold water storage tank and in these cases the taps are often labeled as 'Drinking Water', or 'Not Drinking Water'. Both will usually be accompanied by a symbol. Phil _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
