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From: Einde O'Callaghan <einde.ocallaghan@planet-interkom.de>
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Subject: Re: Spelling South East Asia
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:10:09 +0200
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Frederick Williams wrote:
> How does one spell South East Asia? Like that or Southeast Asia or
> South-East Asia?
You will find all three versions in use. A quick look at the results of
a Google search indicate that "southeast" is more common on American
websites, whereas "south east" seems to be more common on British, Irish
and Australian websites. The hyphenated form seems to be relatively
rare, even if it is also orthographically correct - actually technically
it is more correct in the adjectival form than "south east".
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
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