Austin wrote:
- /* centred vertically and in the right side of the password edit
control */
- /* centered vertically and in the right side of the password
edit control */
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.
On Jan 24, 2008 1:37 PM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
Austin wrote:
- /* centred vertically and in the right side of the password edit
control */
- /* centered vertically and in the right side of the password
edit control */
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. Most Britishisms look more formal (Whisky, favourite, etc.) whereas, 'centred' doesn't. I can stop changing it, but personally I think 'centered' is much better.
- Austin
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. - Dan
On Jan 24, 2008 4:25 PM, Dan Kegel dank06@kegel.com 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.
- Dan
Understandable, just offering my $0.02. I'm a bit busy at the moment, but I'll get a new patch sent later today/tomorrow. Or Alexandre, if you want you can go ahead and apply the patch, minus that change...
-Austin
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
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