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you guys who can tell me center and centre is used by which country normally.

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[nq:1]you guys who can tell me center and centre is used by which country normally. [/nq]
"center" is standard in American English usage, but "centre" is used in Britain and Australia. I'm not sure about Canada and South Africa.

Of course, HTML tags follow American practice. e.g. and also
Fran

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[nq:2]you guys who can tell me center and centre is used by which country normally. [/nq]
[nq:1]"center" is standard in American English usage, but "centre" is used in Britain and Australia. I'm not sure about Canada and South Africa. Of course, HTML tags follow American practice. e.g. and also Fran[/nq]
Dave VE7CNV's Truly Canadian Dictionary of Canadian Spelling at http://www.luther.ca/~dave7cnv/cdnspelling/cdnspelling.html

gives "centre" as the standard Canadian spelling.
"Centre" is occasionally used in the US in the name of shopping malls, arenas, and other buildings. Eagan, Minnesota, for example, has a shopping mall called "Town Centre," with a street presumably named after the mall: "Town Centre Drive."

Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com

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[nq:1]"Centre" is occasionally used in the US in the name of shopping malls, arenas, and other buildings. Eagan, Minnesota, for example, has a shopping mall called "Town Centre," with a street presumably named after the mall: "Town Centre Drive."[/nq]
New York (Manhattan) has a Centre Street.

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[nq:1]Dave VE7CNV's Truly Canadian Dictionary of Canadian Spelling at http://www.luther.ca/~dave7cnv/cdnspelling/cdnspelling.html gives "centre" as the standard Canadian spelling. "Centre" is occasionally ... for example, has a shopping mall called "Town Centre," with a street presumably named after the mall: "Town Centre Drive."[/nq]
I once met a New York judge whose court was at 100 Centre Street.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

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Raymond S. Wise filted:
[nq:1]Dave VE7CNV's Truly Canadian Dictionary of Canadian Spelling at http://www.luther.ca/~dave7cnv/cdnspelling/cdnspelling.html gives "centre" as the standard Canadian spelling.[/nq]
This is evidence of Canada's unique form of linguistic hypocrisy...if a Canadian commercial developer opened a mall called "Smith Center", he'd be required to provide signage translating this as "Centre du Smith"...if he spells it "Smith Centre", there is apparently no law in the land of the maple leaf requiring the English counterpart be supplied..
(See also "crapaud dans le cavite")..r

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[nq:1]Raymond S. Wise filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]Dave VE7CNV's Truly Canadian Dictionary of Canadian Spelling at http://www.luther.ca/~dave7cnv/cdnspelling/cdnspelling.html gives "centre" as the standard Canadian spelling.[/nq]
[nq:1]This is evidence of Canada's unique form of linguistic hypocrisy...if a Canadian commercial developer opened a mall called "Smith Center", ... law in the land of the maple leaf requiring the English counterpart be supplied.... (See also "crapaud dans le cavite")....r[/nq]
Tsu parles-tsu du Centre Smith? Et pis on est des grenouilles icitte. (Va demander à Charlebois.) Des crapauds, c'est une affaire d'autre trou, d'outre-mer. CDB

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CDB filted:
[nq:2](See also "crapaud dans le cavite")....r[/nq]
[nq:1]Tsu parles-tsu du Centre Smith? Et pis on est des grenouilles icitte. (Va demander à Charlebois.) Des crapauds, c'est une affaire d'autre trou, d'outre-mer. CDB[/nq]
Ma!...that initials person is talkin' furrin again!...

I'm not going to be able to read that until I get home tonight because my employer blocks all translating websites...I only knew the "crapaud" bit because a Canadian comedy group did such a great sketch about the Tongue Troopers (with a passing shot at the oxymoronic term "English cuisine")....r

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[nq:2]Raymond S. Wise filted: This is evidence of Canada's unique ... English counterpart be supplied.. (See also "crapaud dans le cavite")..r[/nq]
[nq:1]Tsu parles-tsu du Centre Smith? Et pis on est des grenouilles icitte. (Va demander =E0 Charlebois.) Des crapauds, c'est une affaire d'autre trou, d'outre-mer. CDB[/nq]
Why "tsu"? And why the reflexive as well "-tu"? And if it were reflexive, wouldn't it be "toi"? And if it is "tu" shouldn't the imperative be "Vas"?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Vraiment! Ou est-ce que c'est un instance de franglais?

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[nq:1]CDB filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]Tsu parles-tsu du Centre Smith? Et pis on est ... Des crapauds, c'est une affaire d'autre trou, d'outre-mer. CDB[/nq]
I sometimes thing Babelfish is having fun with me...does that last sentence really say "Clamping plates, it is a business of another hole, overseas."?...r

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} New York (Manhattan) has a Centre Street.
My Uncle Fred's building in Hempstead was at the end of Centre Street, fronting on, what is it, Franklin Avenue? The offices upstairs had the address 5 Centre Street I know, because I used to stay in the first one on the left. There was a restaurant on the corner downstairs and several stores along the other street. ObAreff: there was an alley in back, off Centre Street.
He bought it at a tax sale on the steps of Town Hall. He showed up late, but he had a cashier's check for $9000 (which was ten percent of his price) in his pocket. They were diddling around ten or twenty thousand when he got there, so he spoke up and bid the whole ninety thou (ObAUE: (TaU)), and people turned around to figure out that the guy in denim overalls was up to with all the lawyers standing around in suits. By the time they turned back, that was all she wrote.
I spent a fair amount of time spreading My-T-Plate (I think that's how you spell it; maybe someone'll care enough to google it) goop on the roof to make sure it was watertight. Compared to that, driving truck in the Army was a vacation.

R. J. Valentine

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