On 26 April 2011 20:22, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
It appears that nobody appears to actually follow this
rule (including the
"New York Times"), but I find the nuance interesting. I imagine one would
perform better than the other during fundraising; perhaps there's hard data
on that.
This varies between local dialects of English. The word "charity" is
much more freely applied to anything tax-deductible in the UK than it
is in Australia or (as far as I can tell) the US, for example. I
wouldn't sweat it hugely.
- d.