On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:08:11 -0400 (EDT), consul tores wrote: > 2011/10/2 Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com>: >> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:20:57 -0400 (EDT), Nuno Magalhães wrote: >>> i still get quirky about color instead of colour or centre vs center >>> (which is which btw?). >> >> ... >> center is the American spelling and centre is the British spelling >> ... > > Nop, it seems incorrect: > > The center of the earth. > The Bachellors centre.
The names of businesses are an exception. The name of a business will often use a British, or even an archaic spelling in order to create an effect. For example, there is a business called "The Vitamin Shoppe". Shoppe is an archaic British spelling for shop. In ordinary prose, the word is always spelled "shop". But in the name of a business, they may deliberately use an old spelling to create an effect. Maybe they want you to believe that their business has been around for a very long time. Or maybe they want you to associate their business with the old-fashioned personal touch of a sole proprietorship from long ago. It's a marketing thing. Sometimes, they deliberately misspell things in the name of a business. A well-known example is "Toys R Us". (Actually, the right way to spell it is with a backwards "R", but I don't have such a key on my keyboard.) It is a store which specializes in selling toys for children, and children are known for incorrect spelling. That's part of the effect that they are trying to create. "Center" may be spelled "centre" in the name of a business, to create a marketing effect, but in ordinary prose, it is always spelled "center". The only other exception that I know of is Bible quotations. When quoting verses from the "Authorized Version" of the Bible, commonly known as the "King James Version", the words are spelled exactly the same as they appear in print in the Bible. The AV is, after all, an English book, and the spellings are the standard English spellings from 1769, which is when the book was last revised. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1562990044.2245722.1317577026210.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com