On Jan 24, 2008 2:20 PM, Austin English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I never thought about it before, but "centred" is perfectly fine > > English, at least in England. > > Guess I need to add that to stop.txt. > > I've never seen it used personally.
My test for whether a word is commonly used is to search for it on the internet. 'centred' turns out to be very common, 9 million hits. So our intuition is wrong there -- it's a common Britishism, and it should be left alone. - Dan
