Talk:Regional theatre in the United States

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What, exactly, is the parenthetical comment after the first sentence of this article? I'm not sure about the way the site works, but isn't there some sort of editing process?

[edit] "-er" vs. "-re"

I know that there is some rather dated & extensive discussion somewhere in Wikipedia about the "-er/-re" thing, but the following sentence (added July 2007) needs a credible reference: "It should be noted that, in the United States, the correct spelling of live stage theater is 're', while a motion picture theatre is spelled with the inverted 'er'." Bfx12a9 19:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Removing sentence noted above. Because The New York Times Guide to Style and Usage lists "theater" as the spelling it uses, I don't understand how a blanket, uncredited assertion of "correctness" can be made (not that The Times is the arbiter of "correctness" - only that it shows that at least one major publishing company disagrees). Bfx12a9 22:31, 25 September 2007 (UTC)