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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject: Publicly or publically? |
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Which one do you use? I thought about that today, and realised I'm not sure which I favour - but publically is the one that seems to roll off my fingers initially. So then I decided to google it, and discovered a few online arguments about it.
Edit: Altered the thread title, changing 'Pubicly' to 'Publicly' 
Last edited by Big_Bird on Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:26 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I am always telling my gf when she grabs my crotch, "hey, dont do those things in pubic". (title of this thread, "pubicly v publically") |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I would not us pubicly publically.
Freud's field day. |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| cbclark4 wrote: |
Yes, I would not us pubicly publically.
Freud's field day. |
yes, for us, we should not discuss our pubes on here. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| pest2 wrote: |
| (title of this thread, "pubicly v publically") |
Must have a very dirty mind!  |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
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| (title of this thread, "pubicly v publically") |
Must have a very dirty mind! |
Please Big Bird, not here! Dave's is a pubic forum. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:37 am Post subject: |
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I am surprised that pubic isn't beeped out!!!
I am not sure which I use, to be honest.. I think may be publically... publicly doesn't look right to me... |
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on_me_head_son
Joined: 26 May 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| This is actually the first time I've ever come across 'publically'. I've never read it or heard it being used before. Is it an American English/ British English issue? |
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oneofthesarahs
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Location: Sacheon City
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:14 am Post subject: |
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| I don't think I've ever come across publically either. In my mind the word is three syllables: pub-lic-ly. "Publically" sounds like it would be pronounced with four: pub-lic-al-ly. And that just ain't right. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:23 am Post subject: |
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| on_me_head_son wrote: |
| This is actually the first time I've ever come across 'publically'. I've never read it or heard it being used before. Is it an American English/ British English issue? |
That's an interesting question, so I did a search. I couldn't find much at all, but I did find this discussion on Wikipedia Talks (I should point out this is several people talking):
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publically/publicly
As far as I'm concerned, "publically" is a misspelling (albeit a very common one) but it was recently removed from the list of common misspellings. Comments? Stewart Adcock 21:08, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
There was a bit of a discussion about it on User:Archivist's talk page in the aftermath of WikiTypo Day. Hideous as it appears to some of us, apparently it is recorded in some dictionaries. Usage guides tend to frown on it, however. �Hajor 21:19, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
A quick Google on the popularity returned 216,000 hits for 'publically' vs. 5,160,000 hits for 'publicly'; thus, publicly is used 96% of the time online vs 4% for the variant spelling. A quick perusal of the top results for each seem to indicate that it's not a UK vs. US spelling issue; results for both are all over the place.
I believe it's Merriam-Webster that lists it; a variety of online dictionaries have it, but they all look like they're taking it from M-W. Do we have a policy to remove less common alternate spellings from Wikipedia?
While it's the spelling I've always used, I don't care enough to 'un-correct' it if people change it; however, the principle of correcting spellings listed as valid does concern me a little.
I could find only one reference online to the issue; the Columbia Guide to Standard American English says:
publicly, publically (advs.)
Publicly is the usual spelling; publically does occur, but rarely in Edited English.
By 'Edited English' they mean what, in their opinion, is appropriate for formal and semi-formal written use. No other source accessible online offers a usage opinion.
If it's consensus that we should correct rare spellings considered deprecated by some style guides, then go ahead; I am however unsure we have such a consensus, and would like to hear some opinions on the matter. �Morven 23:44, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I had been making "publically=>publicly" changes all over the place but I stopped when Morven, correctly, pointed out that some dictionaries consider "publically" to be valid. I am now very much undecided on whether the remaining examples should be "corrected". Stewart Adcock 00:29, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I had a look at the BBC News website and both spellings have wide use there, even in recent articles. This is the spelling we were taught at school too (I went to school in Britain), and I'm in my late 20s so the same teachers are likely to be still teaching it. I don't think this should be counted as wrong if it's so widely used by respectable sources, even if those sources are in a minority. There are much more clear cut spelling blunders to worry about that absolutely no one thinks correct, such as "book's for sale".
Nope. Results from All of the BBCHelp Page 0 of 0 pages for publically. It's an error. --Guinnog 00:19, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
As another data point, the OED lists both. Publicly is the primary entry, but no usage comment is made on either one. Both have a significant history of usage quoted, though publicly has an earlier first cited usage by some centuries (1500s versus 1920). --Delirium 07:06, 23 September 2006 (UTC) |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Lists_of_common_misspellings
Since publically looks better to me, and seems to be the one that rolls of my fingers first, I must be one of the 1 in 25 who uses it, verses the 24 in 25 who use publicly! |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:41 am Post subject: |
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I still find 'publicly' a little strange, and am trying to come to terms with the fact that it is by far the most commonly used variant.
Do people have no taste!?  |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| big bird, you so should not have edited the title. It was so much more funny as pubicly. |
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