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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Is It Theater or Theatre?

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.6 β€’ 79.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever noticed sometimes theaters – we mean, theatres – oh, forget it – places where you see movies or plays – are sometimes spelled two different ways? You can thank Noah Webster, author of the first American dictionary, for that.

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

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0:14.0

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0:16.4

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0:17.7

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0:23.6

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0:34.6

Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

0:36.1

I'm Josh, there's Chuck and this is short stuff.

0:39.7

And the one where we get into explaining why some places you go to see a movie or a play

0:48.3

or spelled theater, THEA, TRE and others are spelled theater, THEA, TR.

0:56.9

And has nothing to do with one being futuristic or anything like that.

1:01.5

And I love this because when we go on live tour Chuck, it's almost invariably theater.

1:09.2

But every once in a while you run up against a place of venue that spells it theater with

1:14.4

the ER instead of RE.

1:17.5

And it's mind-boggling.

1:20.2

It's probably the worst thing that happens on tours is having to deal with the differentiation

1:25.7

between those two.

1:27.0

Yeah, it's funny.

1:28.0

I had a feeling you were going to mention that because when we do our tour website through

1:34.9

our old palesant Squarespace, I always have to go back and double check and you're right.

1:41.0

It usually is RE.

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