24 Jan
2008
24 Jan
'08
10:34 p.m.
On Jan 24, 2008 4:25 PM, Dan Kegel <dank06(a)kegel.com> wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 2:20 PM, Austin English <austinenglish(a)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