On 22/07/2020 11.25, Tod Fitch wrote:
Digression: The wiki page for natural=sinkhole [3] says that it is a tagging error to use natural=sink_hole. When I look at taginfo I see nearly 2000 occurances of natural=sink_hole and none for natural=sinkhole [4]. I guess the write of the wiki page disagreed with the spelling of the most used spelling of the tag value.
I am fairly confident that "sinkhole" is the correct American spelling, and "sink hole" is discouraged; my guess is that's what the author was thinking.
That said, OSM apparently uses en_GB spelling, and "sink hole" *does* seem to have use in the UK (but it seems "sinkhole" does also).
FWIW, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkhole) only lists "sink-hole" as an alternative, although Wiktionary does have "sink hole".
Interestingly, the etymology is given as 'from sinkehole, sinkeholl', suggesting that "sink hole" is a neologism and "sinkhole" is more historically accurate.
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