Have always sort of thought of sepErate as taking things apart, and sepArate as them being disconnected - as in thought of one as a verb and one as an adjective, or something - but never really thought of it consciously as such, and the one thing to do with center/centre that always remember is that in HTML markup, it's align="center" whereas we spell it centre this side, but anyway, and it seems to be hard coded as centre in python 2.7/wxPython in any case - most likely due to guys who developed it being, I think, being located in Europe or something, but anyway.
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Good point. Programming is a very american English centric activity. I've seen "centre" form of spelling center but I've never seen "seperate". I've always thought this is just simply a common misspelling of "separate". On 8/31/11, Jacob Kruger <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Using wxPython, I was retyping sample code from some tutorial materials, and jaws was reading the name of a function to me related to inserting a menu seperator inbetween menu items just like that: .AppendSeperator whereas it seems to actually be spelt .AppendSeparator Now, if I think about the different meanings of the two forms of spellingseperate and separate - where I think the one would be more related to the noun/object, and the other is more relative to the activity/verb, it's hardfor me to decide which of the spellings should have been used in this regard, and, FWIW, it's actually AppendSeparator - think that's more relevant to an object/item/noun, but could be wrong there as well. BTW, this is also similar to when it took me a little while to figure outwhy another piece of code wouldn't run - was, as per usual assuming that inthis type of context, the american spelling of center would berelevant/made use of instead of the other version, centre that we use thisside, and which I think/suppose also gets used more in areas like europe/UK, etc., but anyway - just think that in general I would sort of assume american spelling versions had been made use of in something like this, but anyway...<smile> Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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