Ray Saintonge wrote:
Steve Summit wrote:
(The problem's just as bad over on Wiktionary, where there are stubbornly, defiantly distinct pages for `color' and `colour'. Huge, repetitive, internecine arguments regularly erupt, whenever anyone has the temerity to suggest that the two entries be merged somehow since they're "obviously" just two spelling variants for "the same" word.)
It's not a problem. The reasonable people understand that it needs to be on two separate pages.
Standard practice of dictionaries, though, is to collapse trivial variants into one entry. Even the OED, quite possibly the most thorough English-language encyclopedia in existence, does this. What's the point of duplicating information?
-Mark