2011/10/2 Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com>: > 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
OK, thanks for the informatios, see you "latre".; ) -- 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/CAFxkjq=fjd7n+2d_+4i3+esw+n1qwaseptqt6sawpwbfj0d...@mail.gmail.com
