[BRLTTY] Possible contraction error: Guenever

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2006/09/11 at 13:57 -0400]

>According to the dictionary.com this should be spelled Guinevere. This 
>spelling is contracted correctly.
>
>But throughout Mark Twain's book "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's 
>Court" the spelling of Guenever is used. This same spelling is also used in 
>the modernized-spelling edition of Malory's Le Morte Darthur available on 
>Project Gutenberg and apparently edited by A. W. Pollard (whoever that may 
>be).

If Americans can drop the "u" in words like "colour" and "favour", then why
can't they also drop an "e" in someone's name. :-)

Please let Her Royal Highness know that revision 2440 makes her honoured name
more accessible to those in the western hemisphere.

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