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The lands of the future Centre County were first recorded by James Potter in 1764. Potter, having reached the top of Nittany Mountain, and "...seeing the prairies and noble forest beneath him, cried out to his attendant, 'By heavens, Thompson, I have discovered an empire!'" [4] Centre County was created on February 13, 1800, by Act 2092 of the Pennsylvania Legislature from parts of Huntingdon ...
[41] This is a reverse of the typical rule, where British spelling uses the ae/oe and American spelling simply uses e. Words that can be spelled either way in British English include chamaeleon, encyclopaedia, homoeopathy, mediaeval (a minor variant in both AmE and BrE [42] [43] [44]), foetid and foetus.
The American Spelling Bee-havior trends brought to you by the search engine Google. Over the last 12 months, Google took notice of what words people in states spell wrong the most. Topping the ...
An 1814 American medical text showing British English spellings that were still in use ("tumours", "colour", "centres", etc.) In the early 18th century, English ...
Also Latah County: Leakey: LAY-kee / ˈ l eɪ k i / Lebam: lə-BAM / l ə ˈ b æ m / Lebanon, Pennsylvania: LEB-ən-ən / ˈ l ɛ b ən ə n / Also the city in New Hampshire Leicester, Massachusetts: like Lester / ˈ l ɛ s t ər / [n 19] Leicester, Vermont: LY-stər / ˈ l aɪ s t ər / Lemhi County: LEM-hy / ˈ l ɛ m h aɪ / Lemoore: lə ...
Cheyenne (from the French pronunciation and spelling of the Dakota word Sahi'yena, a diminutive of Sahi'ya, a Dakotan name for the Cree people. [161]) Cheyenne River; Dubois (named after U.S. Senator Fred Dubois, of French-Canadian ancestry) Fontenelle; Fort Laramie; Fremont County (named for John C. Frémont, French-American pioneer and ...
The following is a handy reference for editors, listing various common spelling differences between national varieties of English. Please note: If you are not familiar with a spelling, please do some research before changing it – it may be your misunderstanding rather than a mistake, especially in the case of American and British English spelling differences.
These are the 78 municipalities of Puerto Rico, the three major islands of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the three districts and two atolls of American Samoa, [b] Guam as a single island and county equivalent, the four municipalities of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the nine island territories of the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands.