Spelling Error
Wasn't sure where to put this, it's really minor really..
www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=Doujin
If you look at my nation page you'll see that "mortgage" is mispelled as morgage.
Huzen Hagen
10-05-2005, 16:23
nope, thats how you spell it in English.
Guffingford
10-05-2005, 16:45
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=mortgage
Frisbeeteria
10-05-2005, 16:51
This would be an Issue issue, and there is a thread devoted to typos in Got Issues. We're aware of a bunch of these typos, but it takes an admin to correct them and it's verrrrry low on the priorities list right now.
Huzen Hagen, I believe you are incorrect. The UK spelling is more often "mortgage". And even though "morgage" gets a million-odd Google hits, most of them redirect to pages with it spelt "mortgage".mortgage (n.)
1390, from O.Fr. morgage (13c.), mort gaige, lit. "dead pledge" (replaced in modern Fr. by hypothèque), from mort "dead" + gage "pledge;" so called because the deal dies either when the debt is paid or when payment fails. Source (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mortgage)
Huzen Hagen
10-05-2005, 17:50
This would be an Issue issue, and there is a thread devoted to typos in Got Issues. We're aware of a bunch of these typos, but it takes an admin to correct them and it's verrrrry low on the priorities list right now.
Huzen Hagen, I believe you are incorrect. The UK spelling is more often "mortgage". And even though "morgage" gets a million-odd Google hits, most of them redirect to pages with it spelt "mortgage".mortgage (n.)
1390, from O.Fr. morgage (13c.), mort gaige, lit. "dead pledge" (replaced in modern Fr. by hypothèque), from mort "dead" + gage "pledge;" so called because the deal dies either when the debt is paid or when payment fails. Source (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mortgage)
see guffs post. Yes the UK spelling is mortgage which is the English spelling. I dont think it would be wise to start spelling the game in a dialect.
Jjuulliiaann
10-05-2005, 22:56
see guffs post. Yes the UK spelling is mortgage which is the English spelling. I dont think it would be wise to start spelling the game in a dialect.UK English isn't a dialect, it's the original version of English.
Very Angry Rabbits
10-05-2005, 23:52
In ... um, well, I guess to differentiate from "English" english, I guess I have to call it "American" english... the word in question is spelled...
mortgage
dunno where these guys come from who spell it without the "t"
Shadowstorm Imperium
10-05-2005, 23:56
In ... um, well, I guess to differentiate from "English" english, I guess I have to call it "American" english... the word in question is spelled...
mortgage
dunno where these guys come from who spell it without the "t"
They come from the land of the typing mistake.
This would be an Issue issue, and there is a thread devoted to typos in Got Issues. We're aware of a bunch of these typos, but it takes an admin to correct them and it's verrrrry low on the priorities list right now.
Huzen Hagen, I believe you are incorrect. The UK spelling is more often "mortgage". And even though "morgage" gets a million-odd Google hits, most of them redirect to pages with it spelt "mortgage".mortgage (n.)
1390, from O.Fr. morgage (13c.), mort gaige, lit. "dead pledge" (replaced in modern Fr. by hypothèque), from mort "dead" + gage "pledge;" so called because the deal dies either when the debt is paid or when payment fails. Source (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mortgage)
Sorry.
Huzen Hagen
11-05-2005, 15:40
UK English isn't a dialect, it's the original version of English.
the current spelling is the english one. To change it would be to make it into a dialect.
Very Angry Rabbits
11-05-2005, 18:36
the current spelling is the english one. To change it would be to make it into a dialect.The spelling being used by "Nationstates" in the descriptive paragraph Doujin originally refers to is: morgage.
The correct spelling of the word in english is: mortgage
It is pronounced without the "t", but to spell it without the "t" is to spell it wrong.
well, actually, to spell "it" without the "t" is to spell "I"...