On Thursday 24 January 2008 23:25:53 Dan Kegel wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 2:20 PM, Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 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