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6. Policies for standardization and attitudes
| Owner-controlled policy: person/institution in charge of a geographical object decides on the spelling of its name |
Do you know where these English towns are located? And can you pronounce them?
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| Conservationist policy: the name version as it has come down to us should be preserved (even if that causes discrepancies between spelling and pronunciation) |
Attitudes towards geographical names:
- Geographical names are linguistic reference tools, so they can be streamlined, spelled as they sound
- Geographical names are proper names, part of our cultural heritage. As proper names do not change, so geographical names should not be altered but be preserved.
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