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:Winchester rifle.... yeah; it "won the west". Everyone in the world heard, read, saw, that a thousand times in a thousand crap (or occasionally better) movies during the 50s and into the early 60s. I know I did. But your statement that ''"we Americans never heard of Winchester as anything else..."'' proves my point. Americans are ignorant. Wilfully ignorant of anything outside your borders.
:Winchester rifle.... yeah; it "won the west". Everyone in the world heard, read, saw, that a thousand times in a thousand crap (or occasionally better) movies during the 50s and into the early 60s. I know I did. But your statement that ''"we Americans never heard of Winchester as anything else..."'' proves my point. Americans are ignorant. Wilfully ignorant of anything outside your borders.
:If you want to continue this gmail me. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 21:37, 15 January 2015 (EST)
:If you want to continue this gmail me. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 21:37, 15 January 2015 (EST)
Supersede v. Supercede
I will give you a reason why I prefer supercede' to supersede. The word cede is a word on its own. Its simplest meaning is to give way or yield. It has both French and Latin roots which I won't explain here because I might have to use an accent and Vargas will get annoyed if I get it wrong. Cede and its variations - ceed, cess etc. make up part of dozens of compound words like proceed, succeed, accede, concede, process, access, recede and so on into longer words like procession and intercession. I find it strange that antecedents - those that have gone before - can have a different spelling to a word referring to that that comes after or replaces.
Also, supersedes looks wrong. Don't mock that, David. It's late Sunday afternoon here and earlier, my daughter, in her mid twenties, had a sort of afternoon tea with 6 or 7 of her friends; all of them university graduates, all of whom she had met either at uni or working as guides at historic sites or museums. I typed both spellings and distributed it to the assembled ladies. They all were happier with cede. And please remember that many books used for academic purposes in Australian unis and colleges use American English, so it is not as though they are unfamiliar with your spelling.
I am all for a bot for standardisation of certain forms used in wikis, but not when it interferes with the vernacular of the editors.
Cheers AlanE (talk) 04:44, 18 September 2016 (EDT)