Comments on: Caesar Sat on the Dais http://www.dailywritingtips.com/caesar-sat-on-the-dais/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:00:10 -0600 hourly 1 By: Maeve http://www.dailywritingtips.com/caesar-sat-on-the-dais/comment-page-1/#comment-13323 Maeve Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:50:02 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/caesar-sat-on-the-dais/#comment-13323 Suz, "Cancelled" is British spelling; "canceled" American. I'm prefer the double letters in words like this, only to be told by my spell checker that I've mispelled them. The single l is a fairly recent Americanized spelling. "Cancell" is not correct on either side of the Atlantic. Write "cancel." Suz,
“Cancelled” is British spelling; “canceled” American. I’m prefer the double letters in words like this, only to be told by my spell checker that I’ve mispelled them. The single l is a fairly recent Americanized spelling.

“Cancell” is not correct on either side of the Atlantic. Write “cancel.”

]]> By: Suz http://www.dailywritingtips.com/caesar-sat-on-the-dais/comment-page-1/#comment-13275 Suz Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:00:12 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/caesar-sat-on-the-dais/#comment-13275 Could you please tell me which is correct? Cancelled or Canceled Cancell or Cancel? Could you please tell me which is correct?

Cancelled or Canceled
Cancell or Cancel?

]]> By: Maeve http://www.dailywritingtips.com/caesar-sat-on-the-dais/comment-page-1/#comment-1624 Maeve Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:08:35 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/caesar-sat-on-the-dais/#comment-1624 Geoff, Re: "cooperate, co-operate, or coöperate" Since "co" is a common English prefix, I write <strong>co-operate</strong>. I don't write <em>cooperate</em> because I balk at having two o's with different pronunciations run together. (The spelling <strong>oo</strong> in a word like <strong>Cooper</strong> is the single phonogram <strong>oo</strong> and not two letter o's.) I would not write coöperate because, while I think the diaeresis is appropriate in more or less exotic words like <i>Zoë</i> and <i>naïve</i>, in the common word "co-operate," its use seems to me unnecessary and, perhaps, affected. Geoff,
Re: “cooperate, co-operate, or coöperate”

Since “co” is a common English prefix, I write co-operate. I don’t write cooperate because I balk at having two o’s with different pronunciations run together. (The spelling oo in a word like Cooper is the single phonogram oo and not two letter o’s.)

I would not write coöperate because, while I think the diaeresis is appropriate in more or less exotic words like Zoë and naïve, in the common word “co-operate,” its use seems to me unnecessary and, perhaps, affected.

]]> By: Maeve http://www.dailywritingtips.com/caesar-sat-on-the-dais/comment-page-1/#comment-1623 Maeve Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:48:28 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/caesar-sat-on-the-dais/#comment-1623 Geoff, Actually, that's how I remember to put the <b>ae</b> in <b>Caesar</b>! The same pronunciation was being taught in Hot Springs, Arkansas in the Fifties. By the way, Wheelock's Latin, still in use, gives the same pronunciations: <strong>c</strong> = /k/ as in <em>cat</em>; <b>ae</b>= /A/ as in <i>aisle</i>; <b>v</b> = /w/ as English <i>w</i>. Geoff,
Actually, that’s how I remember to put the ae in Caesar! The same pronunciation was being taught in Hot Springs, Arkansas in the Fifties.

By the way, Wheelock’s Latin, still in use, gives the same pronunciations: c = /k/ as in cat;
ae= /A/ as in aisle;
v = /w/ as English w.

]]> By: Geoff Foster http://www.dailywritingtips.com/caesar-sat-on-the-dais/comment-page-1/#comment-1602 Geoff Foster Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:11:42 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/caesar-sat-on-the-dais/#comment-1602 Another afterthought: Sorry about "it's" in my last comment -- I don't know what got into me! Another afterthought:

Sorry about “it’s” in my last comment — I don’t know what got into me!

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