Re: Knowing when to use "it's" and "its"
- From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:28:50 -0700 (PDT)
On Jul 10, 10:53 pm, António Marques <ento...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11 Jul, 03:45, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
One would expect you to favour <theatre>, <centre>, no?-
There is no advantage between "theatre" and "theater".
Theatral, theatrical, theathre all share <theathr->.
How's that again?
And the spelling <er> better reflects the sound at the end of the word
(especially for the non-rhotic minority!) and parallels the homonymous
comparative and agentive suffixes.
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