[mea] Re: "Honourary" Mahatma Gandhi Walkway at The Forks
- From: Byron Rempel-Burkholder <brempelburkholder@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 15:59:02 -0500
I know the fainting feeling. I get it almost any time I see glaring
inconsistency in our beloved language, and among its lovely global
variations, and in the arguments (irrational and sometimes humo[u]rous
though they often are) used to defend them.
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 3:19 PM, <cheri.frazer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Drop the u?
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> *faints*
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> :D
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> From: Byron Rempel-Burkholder <brempelburkholder@xxxxxxxxx> To:
> mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 2013-08-15 03:14 PM Subject: [mea] Re:
> "Honourary" Mahatma Gandhi Walkway at The Forks Sent by:
> mea-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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.
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> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Byron Rempel-Burkholder <*
> brempelburkholder@xxxxxxxxx* <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?
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> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:46 PM,
> <*cheri.frazer@xxxxxxxxxx*<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*<karenmcelrea@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "*mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx* <mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>"
> > <*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*<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* <mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [mea] "Honourary" Mahatma Gandhi Walkway at The Forks
> From: *cheri.frazer@xxxxxxxxxx* <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.
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> You can register your concern at *311@xxxxxxxxxxx* <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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