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HN’s “don’t change the title” rule presumably applies here - don’t rephrase British English from a British newspaper into American English. It’s “ousting”, not
by Doctor_Fegg 3y ago
HN’s “don’t change the title” rule presumably applies here - don’t rephrase British English from a British newspaper into American English. It’s “ousting”, not “ouster”.
(Unless the FT is serving different headlines to different IPs?)
- pxeger1 3y agoI didn’t know that was a BrE/AmE distinction. It’s a very bizarre one.
- jbullock35 3y agoIn the U.S., I get "ousting" from ft.com.
- kolinko 3y agoYes, it's serving differently depending on IP (or browser preference?). In Poland I see "ousting" as well, but Archive.ph and Archive.org both have "ouster": https://archive.ph/c1kr0 https://archive.ph/c1kr0
- Doctor_Fegg 3y agoThat’s pretty neat on the FT’s part.
- thinkingemote 3y agoUK here, 1 hour later and neither "ouster" nor "ousting". I see: "OpenAI’s future hangs in balance amid standoff between staff and board"
- saaaaaam 3y agoTangentially, I had never seen the term “ouster” before this week. To someone used to British English it grates horribly. I saw an explanation somewhere that it is because it’s of French origin, but it doesn’t make it stick out any less.
- Doctor_Fegg 3y agoThere’s a few others that we accept as normal in British English: merger, disclaimer, retainer. They all seem to be vaguely legalistic in usage.
- saaaaaam 3y agoI think we may have read the same article! Or maybe a comment on here :)
- elpocko 3y agoThe regional difference in the title is an interesting application of geolocation imo. "Don't change the title" is an interesting rule anyway for a site that has an automatic title changer that you can't escape, and where you can regularily watch posted titles change like 5 times until they have nothing to do with the original title (but the correct spin for the sensitive HN crowd).