The sudden decline is when Windows shipped with regional dictionaries that worked. “Center” is the American spelling, and that’s the way it’s viewed.
To quote a very famous patriotic commercial for a patriotic beer brand “it’s ZED, not ZEE, ZED!! What about words like remembrance or monstrous?Centre is the correct English spelling for the word and at some point in the early 1800’s or earlier, an American misspelled it, and published said mistake.

Other examples can be found in other countries such the Arts Centre Melbourne. Centre is from the greek word Centro (the middle point of two or more points).

My laptop keyboard is dysfunctional and jumps around and changes letters willy-nilly. This means you now have two divergent rules for the word and its extensions. If Marquis de La Fayette had not crossed the Atlantic with his troops to help the rebels, English would still be spoken in North America. Centre definition: A centre is a building where people have meetings , take part in a particular activity,... | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples This is my the word was changed to center but it remained central, centric, metric, and fibrous because the “tr” cluster is heard in the adjectives but not in the nouns. Center and centre have the same meaning. We don’t deny that some people outside the U.S. do make this distinction–obviously, they do–but we just don’t see it borne out more broadly.

Often ill spell it color but its always centre for meWhat’s wrong with spelling the word like it’s pronounced. My 2011 Oxford English Dictionary says ‘center’ is the US spelling of centre. However I have seen a proliferation of the American spelling all over the place as more and more immigrants come to Canada and they learned English at an international English school that teaches the American spelling, as well at younger people being apathetic. Uhhhh, actually that would be “FULL STOP” my friend. “Center” is several centuries older than the United States. center definition: 1. I was one of those in 1998.just looking at the word center it looks wrong, but im a crazy canadian that spells color colour and humour. If the spelling practice is different outside news writing, this would be interesting to note in our post, but we would need some proof.I work for a public university in California with access to online newspaper archives. Your argument doesn’t hold water. Even if you're a native speaker of UK or US English, there's a good chance you'll learn something new here. Seeing the two words in real-life examples may help you to visualize how to use them. Does that mean that the French should use the word computer instead or ordinateur, since the PC was invented in the US, or that Britons should write airplane instead of aeroplane because the first plane was invented in the US? city centre definition: 1. the central part of a city: 2. the central part of a city: .

Notice that center (and centre… The word in Canada is spelled “centre” PERIOD, END OF STORY. American English or United States English is the dialect of the English language spoken in the United States of America.It is different in some ways from other types of English, such as British English.Many types of American English came from local dialects in England. I was never taught a difference when I was in school.

!”Those DAMNED Americans…..thinking they know everything and always driving around in their Camaro ZED-28’s!“Centre PERIOD.”? (The crowd gathered at the new Arts and Innovation Centre. By the 1950s when I was in elementary school, only “center” was considered correct American spelling for the word. Then we were taught to spell it “centre”.Central is to centre as center is to enter…… maybe?I think you meant: mistre, mastre, carpentre, newspapre, computre, printre, bindre, dressmakre, etc! Centre looks like it should be pronounced sen-treh.


Just remember, in linguistics it is called the “Canadian raising,” not the “American not raising” because it is considered non-standard and normative only in one region.Why not go pre-English to work out the best spelling and meaning?