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Anyone know why it was called the "Connexion" in the UK and not the "Connection"?
by dom96 3y ago
Anyone know why it was called the "Connexion" in the UK and not the "Connection"?
- ArnoVW 3y agoPossibly to make it non-generic and thus trade-markable
- kwhitefoot 3y agoPerhaps the person who wrote connexion was simply a traditionalist, it was the standard spelling until sometime in the 18th century and still seen in many texts in British English in the 20th. Wiktionary calls it a 'dated spelling'. I have been known to write it myself.
- notahacker 3y agoIt's a variant spelling still occasionally used in British English, mostly in the names of organizations. I imagine whoever was localizing it noticed that (or was an idiosyncratic Brit that actually preferred it) (My spellcheck is similarly keen on changing -ise suffixes to -ise even though both are valid in British English and the OED actually marginally prefers it for words like 'organize')
- type0 3y agobecause x is the coolest letter, don't believe me: just ask Elon
- acheron 3y agohttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XtremeKoolLetterz https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XtremeKoolLetter...