Assorted spelling fixes

[Kai Blin]

On Thursday 24 January 2008 23:25:53 Dan Kegel 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.

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

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