Well isn't
that some fancy sidetracking with the intent of blurring the truth, when all you really needed to do was make a simple, humble apology.
I looked it up on 'answers.com' and when it said the same thing, I thought, well gee, Turtle will shred apart my choice of reference, so I'll go to wikipedia instead, which said the same thing.
So we Canadians are the only country whose residents do shortforms, so much so that the encyclopedia publishers had to add a pile of words just for us? I guess you must be right because the only word I could think of to look up off the top of my head as another commonly used shortform was 'homo', and it makes no reference to what EYE think of, when I hear the word.
No sidetracking at all. I know how to read the history of Wiki edits and search terms, and can read what it says as to why some edits and search results are there. In Canada, "hydro" just so happens to be the term that is used to mean hydroelectricity. Wiki never knew about it until they started getting a lot of hits for "hydro" from IP addresses in Canada, quickly followed by searches for hydroelectric and hydropower, then a Canadian did the edit that resulted in the breakout page you quoted. That's how Wiki works. Don't take it personal. It's all in good fun.
Wiki itself can be quite a form of entertainment if you are bored enough to follow some of the things that go on there, especially the edit wars. There have been some knock-down, grag-out fights over some of the most stupid stuff you can imagine.
Aluminium or Aluminum? - 5462 edits and re-edits over that one point of contention. And it's still counting.
Is it "gasoline" or "petrol"? - 2927 edits.
Yugurt or Yoghurt? - 3135 edits.
Sulphur or Sulfur? - 3950 edits.
Brazil or Brasil? - 11,751 edits. I'm serious.
The potato chip. Is it "flavored" or "flavoured"? - After 2268 passionate edits, "seasoned" was the very uneasy and tenuous compromise.
Is it "The Beatles" or "the Beatles"? - 17,608
Should a huge, giant photo of a huge, giant, menacing and utterly scary tarantula spider be placed in the entry for "Arachnophobia"? - 640 especially nasty edits. I say yes.
Are Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader considered the same character? - 12,869 edits.
Which is the most famous "Palin", the politician or the Monty Python member? - 289 edits. No, really, they fight over this crap.
"Wii", "Nintendo Wii", "the Wii"? Should the "wee" link point to the "Wii" page, or should it point to the urine page? - 20,077 edits.
On "Cow Tipping", is the caption under the picture of a cow appropriate if it says, "An unsuspecting victim"? - 2155 edits, mostly by those who feel cows might be offended by such a caption.
And my favorite,
which is the most appropriate term to describe the relationship between a human and a cat? "Owner", "caregiver", or "human companion"? - 10,966 utterly retarded and insane edits.
You think "hydro" as a short form got in on the first ballot untouched? No way. The Brits wanted "spa" as the only acceptable alternate Wiki entry besides water (even though that one was even hotly contested within England, since only a certain "class" of people refer to a spa as the hydro). But Canada fought back. The end result was not an actual page on "hydro" in the Canadian usage that described hydroelectric power, but rather would have links to the "hydroelectric" page, with no page at all for "hydro".
What's the definition of "pre-teen"? 8-12 years old? 9-12 years old? 10-12? 8-13? - 544 edits. Good grief.
You should have seen the fight over AD versus BC in an article about Jesus. And the edit wars on the Scientology page makes waterboarding a welcome diversion.
I'm thirsty, so I'll go drink a cold bottle of hydrate.
