BBC News Online uses American Spelling

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/default.stm

Its behaviour not behavior.

It'll just be a simple spelling error - the report itself has the correct spelling.

It ' s "it ' s" not "its".

A definite mistake compared to a variation in spelling.

And furthermore it was in a quotation , so perhaps the original was spelt that way.

Oh hark at little Mr/Ms/Miss Perfect!

And it does not matter if it is a quotation or not, the spelling is incorrect.

But if it's a quotation then surely if they spelt it that way in say a report then it should be quoted in the same way without alteration.

I mean look at all the problems we've had with that recently over this Iraq Dossier stuff. One persons use of language has led one person to kill themselves... although there is other contributing factors but language plays it's role.

Then you use (sic).

Has this forum fallen to such a level where it is necessary to complain about the most minute of things? I mean really, a simple spelling mistake is neither going to anger or reduce the enjoyment of the people who use websites. And in the case of a spelling/grammatical error, is it necessary to assume immediately that somebody used the wrong "American" spelling? Is there not the slightest chance that somebody might have been typing slightly fast or was distracted at the time and hence made the mistake?

And of course, since it was used in some random 1000 character football story, it's now *official* BBC policy for use across the *entire* BBC News website, by the looks of the thread title.

How do you spell "exaggerate?"



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I think it's always been at that level, actually.

Isn't this just a *slight* over-reaction to what is clearly a typo?

E-mail them - they'll correct it if they notice it!!!

I don't think he was the one who started this topic. Apologies for using a cliché, but; Pot. Kettle. Black.


No you don't, you use [sic.]

Don't be so pedantic! Why don't you email POV, telling them you pay a great deal of money every year for your television license, and...

Once I've rounded up and shot all the continuity announcers, grammatical pedants will be next.