Do you remember seeing it written "Hallowe'en"?
I think I learned to write it that way.
What else has changed?
MS Word wants me to write “catalog”, but I insist on spelling it “catalogue”.
I usually don’t mind change. Language evolves, and that’s a good thing.
In texting, I’ve adopted many modern short cuts. I write “tho” for “though” and “thru” for “through”.
What about you?
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YES…I remember writing it that way but I don’t remember when it went out of favor. Now with any different spelling where Word doesn’t agree, you can right click on the underlined word & it will show you alternate spellings. At the bottom of the list is “Add to dictionary”. Click on the “Add to Dictionary” & after that, Word will accept either spelling. There is a way to take a word out of the MS Word Dictionary, but I’ve NEVER done that one & can’t explain how. You can intentionally spell a word wrong & if you add it into the Word Dictionary, it will take your word for it & recognize it as correct thereafter!!!
I’ve seen it that way in the past at times.
When I look at images of old vintage Halloween cards (on sites like Pinterest), I see it spelled Hallowe’en. That would probably be from Victorian era. Like @LadyMarissa I’m not sure when it went out of style.
Hallowe’en is simply a contraction – “Hallowed Evening”. So from the linguistics point of view, it’s correct.
Lazy people dropped the apostrophe.
Oh, yes, I learned it that way in school. Took me until just a few years ago to drop the apostrophe.
It’s an abbreviation of All Hallows’ Eve, “eve” as in Christmas eve and expressions like “the eve of the election”—i.e., the night before. “All Hallows” refers to the following two days, November 1 and 2, traditionally All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, respectively—together, All Hallows—the holy or consecrated.
The idea of the Hallowe’en customs begins with the notion that evil spirits would fly abroad on that night before two holy days, when they would have to lie low. Masks and disguises protect you from them somehow. And you propitiate them with gifts, or else they might play foul tricks on you.
Unless I’m editing a technical manual, I write dialogue and catalogue Also though and through. I never use UR even in texts, and I cringe at it in emails. Some kinds of shorthand are fine; I use abbreviations all the time, esp on groc lists. Other people have their sticking points; for myself, it’s the words.
I remember it spelled with the apostrophe, but never compelled to write it that way, even in Catholic School. “If it doesn’t bother the nuns, no need to do it that way.!”.
I still spell words with -ogue at the end.
When I was first learning to spell, the family dictionary was an old version of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, which my mother the librarian declared as the final arbiter. So I learned the British/ Canadian form of spelling words ending with -or as -our. That worked until I tried to spell a word that had “or” in it as “our.” That doesn’t work when spelling “order” as “ourder”.
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