Talk:1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom)

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[edit] Page move

Just to let everyone here know why, I moved the page (Airborne -> Airbourne) to conform with WP:ENGVAR. Since this is a British military article, it should use British English. I'm sure there wouldn't be many American paratroopers happy with 82nd Airbourne Division (United States) :). Parsecboy (talk) 22:43, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Ive never seen it spelt like this and even British sources (i.e. the Offical Campaign history) spells the divisions name (as well as the 6th) Airborne not Airbourne.

The Army: http://www.army.mod.uk/para/ also spells it Airborne as do other websites such as the http://www.pegasusarchive.org/ --EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 23:03, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Edit: One should note this spelling of the word does not show up as a legimate version of the word in the Oxford or Cambridge dictionaries.--EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 23:08, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

That's surprising. I guess we should defer to the spelling in the official histories. Good catch, Enigma. Parsecboy (talk) 00:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)