Ray Saintonge wrote:
Steve Summit wrote:
(The problem's just as bad over on
Wiktionary, where there are
stubbornly, defiantly distinct pages for `color' and `colour'.
Huge, repetitive, internecine arguments regularly erupt, whenever
anyone has the temerity to suggest that the two entries be merged
somehow since they're "obviously" just two spelling variants
for "the same" word.)
It's not a problem. The reasonable people understand that it needs to
be on two separate pages.
Standard practice of dictionaries, though, is to collapse trivial
variants into one entry. Even the OED, quite possibly the most thorough
English-language encyclopedia in existence, does this. What's the point
of duplicating information?
-Mark
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It's simply not NPOV to list only one, or to list both under one title. The
OED, apart from being authoritative, is still British, while Wiktionary is
for all variants of English.
Cheers,
Wildrick