Tom Anderson wrote in
rth.li:

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, James Farrar wrote:

Either that or they're being poncey, like the original operators of the
"San Francisco Shopping Centre", which maintains its erratic spelling
under its current operators: http://westfield.com/sanfrancisco/

Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

*lol*

In message , at
08:00:25 on Wed, 29 Jul 2009, James Farrar
remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

*whoosh*

You've got me there. With a choice of four words that might be spelt
weird, which of the other three would you nominate?
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Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote in
:

In message , at
08:00:25 on Wed, 29 Jul 2009, James Farrar
remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping
Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

*whoosh*

You've got me there. With a choice of four words that might be spelt
weird, which of the other three would you nominate?

What appears to have escaped you is that Tom didn't need that explaining.

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roland Perry wrote:

In message . li, at 17:21:26
on Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Tom Anderson remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

Yes, i know. In the UK, my comment would normally be a 'joke'.

tom

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Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roland Perry wrote:

In message . li, at
17:21:26 on Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Tom Anderson
remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping
Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

Yes, i know. In the UK, my comment would normally be a 'joke'.

A rather good joke IMO!

Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at
08:00:25 on Wed, 29 Jul 2009, James Farrar
remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

*whoosh*

You've got me there. With a choice of four words that might be spelt
weird, which of the other three would you nominate?

A: The first two. (Since it seems you haven't noticed.)


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Tom Anderson wrote:

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roland Perry wrote:

In message . li, at 17:21:26
on Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Tom Anderson remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

Yes, i know. In the UK, my comment would normally be a 'joke'.

Reminds me of the one about the bloke stealing wheelbarrows. ;-)

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In message , at 17:24:48 on
Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Chris Tolley remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

*whoosh*

You've got me there. With a choice of four words that might be spelt
weird, which of the other three would you nominate?

A: The first two. (Since it seems you haven't noticed.)

I have no sensible comment to make, given that various people now assure
me it was a joke in the first place.
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Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 17:24:48 on
Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Chris Tolley remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

*whoosh*

You've got me there. With a choice of four words that might be spelt
weird, which of the other three would you nominate?

A: The first two. (Since it seems you haven't noticed.)

I have no sensible comment to make, given that various people now assure
me it was a joke in the first place.

Oh dear. Let's try to explain.

The first comment was that, because of the spelling, it was "poncey" to
say "San Francisco Shopping Centre" (presumably because Americans don't
spell "center" that way.)

The second comment was jokily to agree, correcting the spelling, to say
"St Francis Shopping Centre" (because that's how Brits (and Americans,
when speaking English) spell "San Francisco")

Is that any clearer?




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