[PRCo] Re: Good Gosh!

[Donald Galt]

On 5 May 2008 at 18:55, Bob Rathke wrote:

> Actually, Ken, you spelled it correctly, just the way Moses Cleaveland did 
> over 200 years ago.
> 
> The story (not sure if it's true) is that sometime around 1800 a newspaper 
> there didn't have enough space to typeset "Cleaveland" in their masthead, so 
> they shortened it to "Cleveland", and the revised spelling stuck.
> 

Let's say "alternate spelling". Odds are that Moses Cleaveland's family came 
from the area in NE England that today is always spelled "Cleveland".

Don G