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Yes, connexion. No, connexion. From the Wikipedia article he links: The spelling connexion is now rare in everyday British usage.

Kiro 14y ago
You should read the comments for an extensive discussion on connexion.
corin_ 14y ago
It's also pretty rare here in Britain to say "Good morrow" or refer to each other as "fellow subjects of the Crown". Maybe we should give him some artistic flexibility here.
- tlarkworthy 14y ago
  Actually I use 'good morrow' fairly regularly, but with dry undertone.
ZoFreX 14y ago
If you know of any good en-US <-> en-GB references, please let me know! I manually went through half a dozen dictionary files - all of them were terrible, full of things like "connexion", and even words that haven't been used since Chaucer's time. The online dictionaries aren't much use either, all the American ones are wrong, and the OED is far too out of date to be of any use (Britain is absorbing a lot of American words and spellings at the moment) Edit: And let this be a lesson to anyone else trying to localize a website from en-US to en-GB: Every reference you have to hand is wrong. If you don't get an actual British English speaker to look over it, we will laugh at you. Edit2: Dug up some of my notes from an en-GB <-> en-US dictionary file we attempted to use: We don't use "gaol" or "gramme" anymore "Ton" and "tonne" are different measurements, not translations of each other "Practise" and "practice" are not interchangeable "Check" cannot be globally replaced with "cheque" "Terrorise" is not and has never been a word
- BellsOnSunday 14y ago
  > "Terrorise" is not and has never been a word Really? That's how I've always spelt it.
  - ZoFreX 14y ago
    I just looked it up again to be sure, and I am slightly mistaken. OED has both forms in use in the 1800s and early 1900s, but all usage examples from the second half of the 1900s onward is -ize only.
- alexkus 14y ago
  In the UK, hardly anyone who has gone through puberty uses "super" or "wicked" as a superlative.

Kiro 14y ago

You should read the comments for an extensive discussion on connexion.

corin_ 14y ago

It's also pretty rare here in Britain to say "Good morrow" or refer to each other as "fellow subjects of the Crown". Maybe we should give him some artistic flexibility here.

tlarkworthy 14y ago
Actually I use 'good morrow' fairly regularly, but with dry undertone.

ZoFreX 14y ago

If you know of any good en-US <-> en-GB references, please let me know! I manually went through half a dozen dictionary files - all of them were terrible, full of things like "connexion", and even words that haven't been used since Chaucer's time. The online dictionaries aren't much use either, all the American ones are wrong, and the OED is far too out of date to be of any use (Britain is absorbing a lot of American words and spellings at the moment) Edit: And let this be a lesson to anyone else trying to localize a website from en-US to en-GB: Every reference you have to hand is wrong. If you don't get an actual British English speaker to look over it, we will laugh at you. Edit2: Dug up some of my notes from an en-GB <-> en-US dictionary file we attempted to use: We don't use "gaol" or "gramme" anymore "Ton" and "tonne" are different measurements, not translations of each other "Practise" and "practice" are not interchangeable "Check" cannot be globally replaced with "cheque" "Terrorise" is not and has never been a word

BellsOnSunday 14y ago
> "Terrorise" is not and has never been a word Really? That's how I've always spelt it.
- ZoFreX 14y ago
  I just looked it up again to be sure, and I am slightly mistaken. OED has both forms in use in the 1800s and early 1900s, but all usage examples from the second half of the 1900s onward is -ize only.
alexkus 14y ago
In the UK, hardly anyone who has gone through puberty uses "super" or "wicked" as a superlative.