Archive for the ‘Words’ Category

Learning Québécois? Têtes à claques to the rescue!

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Knowing that weekend becomes fin de semaine will only get you that far, changing bidule to patente a gosse will get you further, but the real way to get in touch with this marvelous dialect and accent is the online video series Têtes à claques.

Le ski

Le ski

Le Easy Storing System

Napoléon le magnifique

Meet the creators

The sad story of the HTTP referrer and referer

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Googlefight referrer vs. referer

As Google Fight shows, referer is more common on the Internet than referrer, even though referrer is the correct spelling.

Wikipedia describes a possible cause:

Referer is a common misspelling of the word referrer. It is so common, in fact, that it made it into the official specification of HTTP – the communication protocol of the World Wide Web – and has therefore become the standard industry spelling when discussing HTTP referers.