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Hi, it's rare for a long time contributor such as yourself to have never been welcomed to Wikipedia. Have some cookies. LK (talk) 09:49, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Centred around" is an idiom and need not be grammatical

And numerous sources agree with this - see this google. Prepositional constructions are fluid in English and should not be rigidly formal; by changing some of the articles from "centred around" to "centred in" you have changed the context/meaning/sense of the descriptions in question; similarly "centred on" is different from "centred in" also, as also "centred at". Please do not rigidly standardize English, which is a fluid and flexible language, unlike others...as you have no userpage and no infoboxes indicating your linguistic origin, I cannot tell if you are a native speaker, but your rigid adherence to textbook grammar suggests to me you are not. Idiom is idiom and need not be grammatical. There are thousands of journalistic and literary usages of "centred around" going back decades; calling them "wrong" because some grammar text you've read or decided is the "Bible of the English language" is patently wrong. I only changed the Vancouver article back, but please be more judicious in your rigid application of what YOU (and you only) think or assert is grammatical English.Skookum1 (talk) 00:21, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]