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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

I've corrected all the misspellings of airborne in the article as well.--DavidCane (talk) 23:36, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]