Preparations are underway for tomorrow’s New Years Eve celebrations in Gosford.
There’ll be something for everyone in the town, and police are warning revellers to party sensibly.
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Preparations are underway for tomorrow’s New Years Eve celebrations in Gosford.
There’ll be something for everyone in the town, and police are warning revellers to party sensibly.
Well I thought perhaps it was just here in Canada that people posting on public television and internet sites were unable to spell correctly. I see on the page above that spell check wasn’t working here either! According to my dictionary the word is ‘revelers’ with one L not two! In the past 24 hours I’ve seen the very same word, revelers, misspelled, or misspelt whichever descriptive word one prefers, as ‘revellers’, on Canada’s national television network (C.B.C.). Shame on the editors! Back to grade 4, or better yet use spell-check, it’s free and easy and on your computer! Cheers Everyone and Have a Happy New Year!
Unfortunately, Richard, the English language, probably more so than any other, is subject to variations. e.g.
revel [ˈrɛvəl]
vb -els, -elling, -elled US, -els -eling, -eled (intr)
1. (foll by in) to take pleasure or wallow to revel in success
2. to take part in noisy festivities; make merry
n
1. (often plural) an occasion of noisy merrymaking
2. a less common word for revelry
[from Old French reveler to be merry, noisy, from Latin rebellāre to revolt, rebel]
reveller n
revelment n
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
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But I must agree that the standard or grammar is rapidly declining all over the world, and I quite believe that in several hundred years the English we speak today will be to the people of that time as Shakespearean English is to us today.
I must also add that, quite apart from Microsofts’ spellchecker being American English, it is unsuitable for large parts of the English speaking world, notably Australia, New Zealand, the UK and many other countries and it doesn’t always offer alternatives ( i.e. the “local” English )
Happy New Year while you can still understand me !