If PHP Were British (2011)

Re:If PHP Were British (2011) by petepete on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @12:09PM (#20031490)

The funny spelling of centre always gets me too, it just looks so wrong! I can get used to writing words that end in ise as ize, and colour as color. But center, fiber, liter, etc just don't sit right.

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Re:If PHP Were British (2011) by smnrchrds on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @12:28PM (#20031675)

It's just a matter of getting used to. I imagine these spellings do not evoke the same feeling in you, even though they are objectively following the same rule as centre and fibre:

Maple not Mapel

Cable not Cabel

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Re:If PHP Were British (2011) by uwagan on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @12:34PM (#20031737)

Able not Abel

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Re:If PHP Were British (2011) by bradleyhb on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @12:39PM (#20031793)

Here’s my American perspective:

Centre look and sounds like “cent-ruh” rather than the rolled out sounding of err sound to make “center”. Then again, how you say it is a bit different, too.

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Re:If PHP Were British (2011) by Symbiote on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @12:55PM (#20031959)

There are two "US" pronunciations on Wiktionary.

The first is much closer to the British pronunciation, which (I think) is much more deserving of the spelling "centre" than the second "cener".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/center#Pronunciation

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