[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Compound City Names

[Andrew McGuinness <andrew_mcguinness@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:05:51AM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
> Gaute Strokkenes wrote:
> > 
> > Stan Shebs <shebs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > Eldly, Northington, Orborough, Southhall, Teingston, Upper
> > > northington, Brownhill, Taport, Eastgate, Whiteley, Orwashbrook,
> > > Upper endstable, Washwater, Northkirk, Giley, Whiteton, Orblacktoke,
> > > Old oreding, Silpborough, Thaley, Old greenhall, Brinborough,
> > > Fieldney, Petermouth, Trurmhill, Easthill, Lower southkirk
> > 
> > I think that the English usually capitalise the second (and third...)
> > word in multi-word names.  I can't give you a reference, though,
> > except that I've been living (studying) in England on and off for two
> > years.  Just a point of order.
> 
> You're quite right - a bit of sloppiness on my part.  There's
> a hac^H^H^Henhancement to allow capitalization of nonterminals
> by wrapping them with a "(capitalize ...)"; I just added it
> to the appropriate rules, all better now.  Thanks for the catch!
> 
To be even more picky, is it possible to have "elision" rules?
That is, ways of joining bits of words together other than simple 
concatenation.  I see a "Southhall" in the list, but no word in English
would have "hh" in it (fifty people immediately supply counterexamples).
On the other hand, there really is a place called "Southall".  There
would be many other examples.
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Andrew McGuinness     Luton, UK        andrew_mcguinness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx