On Thursday 24 January 2008 23:25:53 Dan Kegel wrote: > 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.
FWIW, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/centred English class at school defined Webster's as the dictionary to look at, similar to Duden in German. http://dict.leo.org knows this spelling at well and classifies it as British English. Cheers, Kai -- Kai Blin WorldForge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin Samba team member http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ -- Will code for cotton.
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