On 6/04/2016 10:56 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2016-04-06 11:43 GMT+02:00 Tom Pfeifer <t.pfei...@computer.org <mailto:t.pfei...@computer.org>>:Please remembers these keys and values on tags are computer variables, not linguistic subtleties. They are often influenced by the people who introduced them. I see no value in being overly nitpicking here.yes, it doesn't matter to the computer how we spell stuff, and it won't typically be exposed to the end user, but still it does matter, because mappers and data consumers will have it easier if we adhere to a well defined spelling (e.g. like we do: British English ortography). The few edge cases that remain are those where BE offers equally valid spelling variants.
I am tending towards shot-put .. as that is what is in the Oxford dictionary (web search) ... and I would take that as THE British English Language Reference. I would not want to propagate US English in a BE usage preference data base. Precession in the words used may help influence mappers in the precision they use in their entries. Fingers crossed.
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