On Thursday 24 January 2008 23:25:53 Dan Kegel 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.
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 -- Kai Blin WorldForge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin Samba team member http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ -- Will code for cotton.