Dream theater

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 Peter wrote:

 Logan wrote:

Actually, both spellings are considered correct in the US, I believe.  I have a spell-check program running in the background as I type, and it's underlining "theatre" which indicates that it should be revised. 

Irregardless of country, of course the band name should be spelled as they spell it (not sure if the members of DT can spell, but that's by-the-by).  I know I often feel bad about skipping umlauts/ accents/ various punctuation marks in some band and album names -- not good with the keyboard symbols.

Since, like I spell colour with a "u",  I usually automatically spell theatre with an "re" at the end, I have to think before spelling out the band's name. Or at least i did, now I'm used to writing out Dream Theater.  Although DT -- delerium tremens - usually suffices.  Actually, I don't like the use of acronyms much -- there are other bands that that can be abbreviated to DT, like Deadsoul Tribe, but I Digress Terribly.

Your spell check program is set to American English, then. Canada follows British spelling patterns. 

(American versions are inevitably creeping in, though, as reading and writing skills deteriorate, and mass media and the Internet spread California surfer/Valley-speak to, like, every corner of the world).

You and every good Canadian are SUPPOSED to spell "colour" with a "u."  Leave out the u and I'll deduct a mark! 

The word is regardless. "Irregardless" is not a word.

Thus concludes the lesson. 

Good luck with the delirium tremens, by the way! 

Humorous intent or not, you are perversely pedantic, Peter.  No offence taken, however.  It's your schtick.  Not that it matters, but irregardless is a word, but it is dialectic United Statesian.  Rather appropriate, I thought.  Of course the ir at the beginning is superfluous.

And shame on me for the delirium typo, I must have been delirious.

I have thrown away that spell-check program, which of course I knew was in Americanized English, as I rather feel like I'm cheating when I use one at all.  I could rarely be bothered with it anyway.  Only the auto-checker was using American English, but I could never bother to run the other.

As for the u in colour, I automatically use it, but sometimes in my work it has been considered better that I use Americanized English for documents.

Anyway, the main point of my old post was merely to say that theatre can be spelled both ways in the US, and that Hamster Theatre, an American band, uses the "re" spelling.

Peter, you make me very glad I'm not still in school (either studying or teaching).   Though I do proofread and edit the odd thesis.  I know I'm horribly under-qualified even if they are just economics papers.

To go boldly where no serious linguist has gone before... That's one of my little goals in life.

Edited by Logan - October 30 2007 at 23:53