[mea] Re: "Honourary" Mahatma Gandhi Walkway at The Forks
- From: Byron Rempel-Burkholder <brempelburkholder@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 15:15:07 -0500
Mind you, I too think honorary looks cleaner. But then let's also write
honorable, and maybe drop the u in honour, too, while we're at it.
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Byron Rempel-Burkholder <
brempelburkholder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From a former MEAer, a squatter, who will be rejoining MEA in September:
> I see no logical justification for deleting the u in honourary, but keeping
> in in honourable. Either we have the u in honour or we don't. I wonder if
> the chagrin should be over dropping it, not retaining it. What governs
> these decisions anyway?
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:46 PM, <cheri.frazer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Yes, much to the chagrin of Katharine Barber, editor of the CanOx. When
>> she was here she talked about how the editorial staff made decisions, and
>> when the % usage of erroneous spellings crosses over the line to become
>> "acceptable." They apparently had long meetings over honourary,
>> irregardless, and preventative, to name a few.
>>
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>> From: Karen McElrea <karenmcelrea@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <
>> mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 2013-08-15 02:06 PM Subject: [mea] Re:
>> "Honourary" Mahatma Gandhi Walkway at The Forks Sent by:
>> mea-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> But the *Canadian Oxford *does list "honourary" as an acceptable
>> alternative spelling.
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>> To: mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [mea] "Honourary" Mahatma Gandhi Walkway at The Forks
>> From: cheri.frazer@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:14:13 -0500
>>
>> An Alert Reader (stole that term from Dave Barry!) has pointed out that
>> the new signs at The Forks spell honorary incorrectly.
>>
>> You can register your concern at 311@xxxxxxxxxxx and/or contact CTV
>> News; their crews were filming the signs today. Where are the Raging
>> Grammarians when you need them?!
>>
>> -C.
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