Am 10. März 2019 20:31:33 MEZ schrieb Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com>: >On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 18:45, Sergio Manzi <s...@smz.it> wrote: > >no problem maintaing the currently defined terminology "prison" and >> "operator", for me: as I said it was a bit of hair splitting and as I >hit >> the send button I also asked myself if maybe "jail" was an >americanism (*I'm >> Italian, I spent some time in the US but very little time in the >UK...*). >> > >The prison/jail distinction tends to be an American thing. In the UK >they >mean the same >thing and police stations (if they have detention facilities at all) >have >cells, not jails. From what >I've dug up so far, it seems only the US has this distinction. > >In researching this answer I also found that (according to Wiktionary) >"gaol" used to be the preferred >spelling in the UK and Australia until Monopoly came along and used the >American spelling even >in those two countries.
How about police=detention as a more generic term then? _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
