Extremely Shiny Adornments, with Bonus Narratives!

[pameladean]

Many of you know this already, but all of you probably don't.

My dear friend elisem is having a clearance sale of her amazing jewellery. Necklace crowns, linked necklaces, pendants, earrings, and a few lovely oddities in addition, many with evocative and inspiring and hilarious names. I've never seen anything like her work. Go have a look. The prices are marked way, way down from the usual. The last time I checked, the sale ended at midnight tonight, presumably in U.S. Central Standard Time.

http://elisem.livejournal.com/1162747.html

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P.S. YES, I SPELLED JEWELLERY THAT WAY ON PURPOSE. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

You're an Anglophile. We *all* knew that.

Hey, last week I spelled "eery" thus, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

[pameladean]

I love that spelling, but I haven't adopted it. I'm terribly tempted to put it into a document, though -- that is, the work in progress has letters in it in which people may spell however they like. I am so tempted. I will probably just succumb, assuming that anybody would actually say that anything was eery.

It's true that I'm an Anglophile, but I have a vague recollection that when I was learning to spell, there were a great many more double letters in use in American English. Most of them were in certain form of verbs that had an unaccented ultimate syllable, but I thought there were a few other words that got socked as well, probably by journalism with its desire to save space. I retain them stubbornly, to the great distress of my semi-martyred copy editors.

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[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Not at all; that's the normal correct version to me. How do you spell the adverb that means "in public"?

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

It's at least an acceptable spelling. You should see the misspellings of it in the bead and jewelry forums I read. I'm pretty sure I can't bring myself to buy "jewlry."

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

P.S. YES, I SPELLED JEWELLERY THAT WAY ON PURPOSE. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?

Hell no that's how I spell it! //grins

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

P.S. YES, I SPELLED JEWELLERY THAT WAY ON PURPOSE. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?

Er, what problem should I have? ;^)

(I'm Canadian. We spell it like that all the time. And we write travelled and modelled, too, though generally not programme.)

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

There's a guy here in Toronto who does obnoxious TV commercials in which he offers in a loud, obnoxious voice to buy people's old jewlery. It makes my teeth hurt every time I hear it, and if I should ever have occasion to sell any jewellery, you can be sure I'll sell it to anyone but him.

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

I always spell it that way.

Also, I have no idea what that deadline of yours is doing, but I am yet again going to be in Minneapolis from after xmas to before New Year's. Things are looking busy-ish, as we are going to go to the Pompeii exhibit (of course) and the zoo (to see the otters) and that sort of thing, but if you have time and aren't yet frightened of me, I would love to have a hot beverage with you at some local hot beveragery. :)

[pameladean]

I won't know until the last minute. I don't know if I'll be frantically writing or desperately in need of a nice break. Will you have email where you're visiting?

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[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

Yes; they have wireless and I take my laptop.

I'm getting there on the Wednesday and leaving probably Saturday or Sunday.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I've seen that spelling, too.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I'm against using the "ally" on the end of those because it seems unnecessary, but I use it in public.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

I spell it "jewelry". I have no problem with "jewellery".

I beta'd a novel for David Friedman where he kept spelling it "jewelery". That I have a problem with. (He had an important character who was a jeweler, too, so it came up often.)

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Not unless I'm copyediting it and the publisher insists on American spellings. You can spell it "plergb" in your own personal writing if you want to.

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Please may I add you to my friends list? If not, please don't hesitate to say no!

Thank you so much for the 'Secret Country' books. They are amongst the special few that I return to again and again. (The Internet is so exciting: I can thank authors in person! Please excuse me, my Inner Fangirl wants to squee! embarrassingly so I shall go away and calm her by doing the ironing.)

Interesting

[nahs386.livejournal.com]

A red-headed, Celtic Anglophile. It takes all types. Of course, I have been in danger of spelling British style this whole semester as I am taking Spenser, Shakespeare: Histories, and Chaucer this semester for my M.A. in British Lit. I really miss the idiotic American vernacular sometimes. sniff. Particularly since I live in the Southland where destroying the King's English has become part of what (y'all) Northerners call "Southern charm."

[pameladean]

Yes, of course. It's here to be read. I probably won't friend you back, but I do look around at the journals of people who read mine from time to time. Right now I have a book deadline, so I'm not doing anything except writing and occasionally answering comments on LJ.

I'm very glad that you like the trilogy. I'm writing a kind of sequel to it right now.

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Re: Interesting

[pameladean]

I do have Welsh and Irish ancestry, but nothing Celtic was much regarded in my family, I'm afraid. They were all very much of the "scrape the dust of the old country off your boots and praise the new one" type. It's a pity, in a way.

I was an English major too, so it's unsurprising that I prefer British spelling. I learn spelling by example, and most of my examples are British.

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Re: Interesting

[nahs386.livejournal.com]

Except from reading your profile, you went to a much better school than I. I must give GA credit, though--I did get a free education through the Hope Scholarship for my undergraduate degree. And I come from a clan where you can still sniff the ocean breeze coming from the Irish Sea. (Or maybe that is the Guinness I'm smelling.) I would like to friend you, if you don't mind--it's always nice to speak to someone who can bemoan both the tribulations and the benefits of a degree in English!

Re: Interesting

[pameladean]

Hee. I wrote a whole book about the tribulations and benefits of a degree in English. It was so much fun it was indecent.

I've always wanted to visit Ireland, but haven't made it yet.

Please feel free to friend me. I'm not even thinking of friending anybody else until my book is written, and probably not even then, but you are very welcome. I do stop by the journals of those who've friended me from time to time, at least when I don't have a looming deadline.

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[pameladean]

"Publically." I know most speakers elide the "al," but it looks just too weird without, to me.

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[pameladean]

It's hilarious to me how many people who live in the U.S. apparently do that. I do think, though I could be wrong, that that is thes spelling I was taught, before journalists got hold of the spelling rules and shook them like a terrier with a rat.

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[pameladean]

I write "travelled" and "modelled" too, and so my copy editors all hate me.

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Re: Interesting

[nahs386.livejournal.com]

Ireland is breathtakingly beautiful and the people extremely warm and amicable. I will be happy to give you advice on places to visit and where to stay.

[pameladean]

Okay, excellent. I am hoping to finish the rough draft before Christmas and take a brief break, but I'm not sure whether that'll happen.

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[pameladean]

Ooo, now, I'd love the explanation of how "jewelery" is bad but "jeweler" is fine. Or were you being referential or sarcastic or whatever?

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[pameladean]

Possibly my actual copy editors have similar attitudes, but I always feel like they hate me. Sometimes they make notes about British spellings, and not in a good way. A few do just note them and leave them alone, which is so much better than my having to stet them all.

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[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Well, they're not very patient copy editors, then. I have to impose three different spelling systems (US, UK, Canadian) for various projects, and I certainly don't waste time hating the people who didn't get it right. That's what search-and-replace is for! :)

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

//facepalm I blame it on reading faaar too much Dickens at a formative age (and Garnett translations of Chekhov). Ask me sometime to tell you the story of how I got kicked out of the national spelling bee in junior high in the first round for spelling it "f-a-v-o-u-r" -- well that's the whole story really, altho the punchline is my mother, who was the Spelling Champion of the Tri-State Area in her day, wanted to call the principal and complain, til I begged her not to. Nowadays she'd probably just sue.

....also "theater" just looks wrong, dammit.

[pameladean]

Ah, but, you see, I feel that I did get it right. So I spurn their suggestions.

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[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

I do hope the publisher is specifically telling the copy editors to leave the spellings alone. I really hate it when a publisher doesn't tell me about an exception to the general rule. For example, a press says, "We follow Chicago." So I make the appropriate changes to a ms. Then the author complains, and the press says, "Oh, except for this guy. Change it all back." It's one thing when the press doesn't know ahead of time that the author will insist on some non-standard usage, but when they do know, why can't they tell me? (Fortunately this has happened very seldom; thus I am still sane. Relatively.)

[pameladean]

That would certainly be maddening.

I've actually just changed publishers, so I don't know how things will be. The previous one had a very lenient attitude towards fantasy in particular; you could use British spellings, you could capitalize pretty much anything you wanted, to, and so on, if you were consistent. The previous previous one was harder to fathom, though theoretically fantasists got more leeway. Some copy editors did not get the memo -- and this could mean either they weren't told, poor souls, or they wouldn't believe it, poor me. Mostly it worked all right.

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[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

"Jewelry" is the standard American spelling. "Jewellery" is the standard British spelling. "Jewelery" is not the standard spelling in any language of this world. No sarcasm.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

And two days ago, in a bead forum, by two people who sell their work, I saw "jelwry" and "jewely."

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Editing fiction is very different, of course. One forgets.

I may sympathize completely with my authors' desire to write "travelled" and "honour", but if the journal's style sheet says "traveled" and "honor", that's what it has to be. And vice versa, for that matter. It's a strange job sometimes...

[pameladean]

I strongly suspect that most of my copy-editor mismatches come from somebody's not reminding them about fiction.

And I should say, since I've been complaining, that copy editors, including some who made me tear out my hair, have saved me huge amounts of embarraassment.

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[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Saving authors from embarrassment is certainly one of the more important aspects of the job (and one of the more rewarding!). :)

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