Re: Cyrillic for English
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Saturday, December 11, 1999, 16:07 |
Raymond Brown scripsit:
> Could well be - or the older spellings kept for special effect - as I've
> occasionally met 'theatre' & 'gaol' in America to give 'quaint' or 'olde
> worlde' effect.
"Theatre" is used in the sense "place where plays are performed" by
people in the theatre business, and a fortiori in the names of
theatres. In all other senses ("operating theater" in a hospital,
"movie theater", "theater of operations" in military strategy, etc.),
"theater" is used.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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