Assorted spelling fixes

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 16:34:54 CST 2008


On Jan 24, 2008 4:25 PM, Dan Kegel <dank06 at kegel.com> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 2:20 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at 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



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