[mea] Re: "Honourary" Mahatma Gandhi Walkway at The Forks
- From: cheri.frazer@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 15:19:59 -0500
Drop the u?
*faints*
:D
From:
Byron Rempel-Burkholder <brempelburkholder@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
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Date:
2013-08-15 03:14 PM
Subject:
[mea] Re: "Honourary" Mahatma Gandhi Walkway at The Forks
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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.
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
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But the Canadian Oxford does list "honourary" as an acceptable alternative
spelling.
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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