This page is a central place to discuss the British spelling of Medieval in Wikipedia articles.
User:El_T wrote the following at Talk:Britain in the Middle Ages
"Mediaeval" [is] used as being more British than medieval. Whilst it is true that mediaeval is relatively more common in the UK than the US, it is still far less common than medieval in both countries. Furthermore, a great many formal British institutions - The Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds for example - use the simpler, more modern spelling of medieval.
In other words, medieval is:
(Incidentally, the use of mediæval - with the a/e ligature - really isn't acceptable in modern English.)
Do make sure, though, that in a quotation, the spelling is that of the person being quoted. Likewise in a book title. I know that's obvious, but BOTs don't always think of it. -- Doric Loon ( talk) 18:42, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
TEN YEARS LATER
Really!?!?? The Oxford English Dictionary doesn't mention that Mediaeval is a contraction of the Latin term Medium Aevum (the Middle Age)?
That's not the OED of legend.
Heinrich Schliemann invested the better part of his life digging for Homer's Troy only to discover that, all that time, he'd actually been destroying its traces instead.
This page is a central place to discuss the British spelling of Medieval in Wikipedia articles.
User:El_T wrote the following at Talk:Britain in the Middle Ages
"Mediaeval" [is] used as being more British than medieval. Whilst it is true that mediaeval is relatively more common in the UK than the US, it is still far less common than medieval in both countries. Furthermore, a great many formal British institutions - The Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds for example - use the simpler, more modern spelling of medieval.
In other words, medieval is:
(Incidentally, the use of mediæval - with the a/e ligature - really isn't acceptable in modern English.)
Do make sure, though, that in a quotation, the spelling is that of the person being quoted. Likewise in a book title. I know that's obvious, but BOTs don't always think of it. -- Doric Loon ( talk) 18:42, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
TEN YEARS LATER
Really!?!?? The Oxford English Dictionary doesn't mention that Mediaeval is a contraction of the Latin term Medium Aevum (the Middle Age)?
That's not the OED of legend.
Heinrich Schliemann invested the better part of his life digging for Homer's Troy only to discover that, all that time, he'd actually been destroying its traces instead.