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Guest Cancer Marney

^ should appreciate the Limey spellings. They make more sense and look better. I mean how dumb is "ameba?"

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Guest Spaceman Spiff

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obviously thinks "centre" is kosher and wonders how she spells "enter"

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Guest Cancer Marney

^ evidently doesn't know the etymology: Middle English centre, from Middle French, from Latin centrum, from Greek kentron sharp point, center of a circle, from kentein to prick; probably akin to Old High German hantag pointed

 

...in light of which, "centre" is obviously correct, and "center" a vulgar corruption of the illiterate and ignorant.

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Guest Cancer Marney

^ spells "enter" enter, incidentally, because it's akin to the Latin inter, although it came from Middle English entren; but since we got rid of the n we might as well switch around the r and the e

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