User talk:Neils51
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Thank you for various edits correcting faulty grammar since October. Keep it up! --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 00:35, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, well done on all the typos & other fixes. Pashley (talk) 14:15, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Humourous[edit]
See https://www.thefreedictionary.com/humourous, among other places, or more instructively, https://www.hotpepper.ca/blog/2018/02/14/difference-humorous-humourous/. However, I see that it is an unusual spelling even in Britain, nowadays. Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:15, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
- Ikan Kekek, what is said in the blog material is quite valid, particularly this bit;
- Note that although humor is the American spelling of humour, humorous is not an American form. This word is spelled the same way in both British and American English, and the spelling humourous is regarded as an error.
- As for FreeDictionary, I am loath to use 'FreeDictionary' and 'competent' in the same sentence. They take the misspelling and then use correct spelling in their usage examples. The spelling 'humourous' is archaic, wrong, in error, and should be expunged from the internet. Neils51 (talk) 08:40, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
- Eh, archaic spellings aren't wrong, just archaic. And non-standard spellings are merely non-standard. There's no good reason to expunge archaic or alternate spellings from the store of online human knowledge. Anyway, understandable error on my part, and sorry for misjudging you as someone who's "correcting" British spellings to become American; that's happened quite often on this site. Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:23, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah we've had that issue so many times and vice versa (changing American to British as well). The most humorous one that I've seen is probably Special:Diff/4289147. Just looks so, [I'm quite lost for words there]. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 09:46, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
- Eh, archaic spellings aren't wrong, just archaic. And non-standard spellings are merely non-standard. There's no good reason to expunge archaic or alternate spellings from the store of online human knowledge. Anyway, understandable error on my part, and sorry for misjudging you as someone who's "correcting" British spellings to become American; that's happened quite often on this site. Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:23, 3 October 2021 (UTC)