Encyclopaedia Britannica my arse!

[red hander]

From Indo:


One of the world's most trusted references was busy double-checking its facts on Ireland last night after giving a grossly inaccurate account of the country's civil war.
A concise version of Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published seven years ago wrongly described the 1922 conflict over partition as a war between Catholics in the south and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

Editors worked through the night to ensure the extraordinary mistake has not been repeated in online versions used by 4,000 schools in Ireland in a special e-learning programme.

Ian Grant, Encyclopaedia Britannica managing director, said the offending article may have been wrongly compiled by an editor attempting to condense complex history.
"This is very rare," he said.

The error was carried on a hand-held device first sold six or seven years ago by Japanese firm Seiko but only spotted this week.
Mr Grant said his editorial teams in London and Chicago were confident online databases, which are updated regularly, do not carry mistakes on Irish history. He could not explain for definite how the error had been made.

The bitter conflict saw pro- and anti-Treaty forces fight over the partition of Ireland which divided the island into six counties in the north becoming Northern Ireland and the 26 counties then known as the Free State.

"We do respond very quickly and our editors have been up all night looking at this," he insisted.

[Orior]

Duplicate thread alert!

[Trevor Hill]

You should have looked up Encyclopedia in the dictionary. 

[red hander]

You should have looked up Encyclopedia in the dictionary. 

Can be spelt both ways, Einstein 

[Trevor Hill]

If you check Britannicas website it is Encyclopedia, the ae spelling was used in the 19th century.

[red hander]

If you check Britannicas website it is Encyclopedia, the ae spelling was used in the 19th century.

What does it say about the use of apostrophes?

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

If you check Britannicas website it is Encyclopedia, the ae spelling was used in the 19th century.

You reckon?

http://uk.ask.com/web?q=Encyclopaedia+Britannica&qsrc=2892&l=&o=100075

Like the majority of such words, i.e., haematology/hematology, the pedia spelling is used mainly on the other side of the Pond, and we're not the 51st state yet.

[rosnarun]

and what authority are you taking as the final correct version ?
if the understanding is clear then it is spelt correctly enough Shakespeare us about 16 different ways to spell heis name didn't do him any harm.
For most people now microsoft have the fianl say on spelling how fecked up is that

[Zapatista]

From Indo:


One of the world's most trusted references was busy double-checking its facts on Ireland last night after giving a grossly inaccurate account of the country's civil war.
A concise version of Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published seven years ago wrongly described the 1922 conflict over partition as a war between Catholics in the south and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

Editors worked through the night to ensure the extraordinary mistake has not been repeated in online versions used by 4,000 schools in Ireland in a special e-learning programme.

Ian Grant, Encyclopaedia Britannica managing director, said the offending article may have been wrongly compiled by an editor attempting to condense complex history.
"This is very rare," he said.

The error was carried on a hand-held device first sold six or seven years ago by Japanese firm Seiko but only spotted this week.
Mr Grant said his editorial teams in London and Chicago were confident online databases, which are updated regularly, do not carry mistakes on Irish history. He could not explain for definite how the error had been made.

The bitter conflict saw pro- and anti-Treaty forces fight over the partition of Ireland which divided the island into six counties in the north becoming Northern Ireland and the 26 counties then known as the Free State.

"We do respond very quickly and our editors have been up all night looking at this," he insisted.

They still have it wrong.

[Tyrones own]

FFS it's not only Britannica, I lifted the young lads school History books off the table the other night for a gander
...didn't recognize much of any of it..tis watered down shite they're filling kids heads with nowadays

[Eoghan Mag]

'Britannica' - Sure anything with that word attached is muck straight away!