specialty

[Alex_cs_gsp]

Почему существует две версии данного слова speciality и specialty?

[Doodie]

а почему есть meter и metre, labor и labour?

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Контекст!)

[Alex_cs_gsp]

Честно, не догадываюсь ? Но ворд отдает предпочтение второму варианту.

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Alex_cs_gsp
Уже 15 лет пользуюсь этой штукой. И еще ни разу не пожалел. Чего и Вам желаю. )
http://www.ldoceonline.com/search/?q=specialty

[Doodie]

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Oxford Dictionary
specialty ['spɛʃ(ə)lti] (specialties) 1) & another term for speciality

CollinsCobuild
specialty [spe̱ʃ(ə)lti] specialties 1) Someone's specialty is a particular type of work that they do most or do best, or a subject that they know a lot about. [AM] His specialty is international law... Both doctors and nurses have increasingly made a specialty of the care of the aged. (in BRIT, use speciality) 2) A specialty of a particular place is a special food or product that is always very good there. [AM] ...seafood, paella, empanadas and other specialties. (in BRIT, use speciality)

OxfordAmericanDictionary
specialty ['speshəltē] spe·cial·ty (also speciality [ˌspeshē'alitē]) (pl. -ties) 1) a pursuit, area of study, or skill to which someone has devoted much time and effort and in which they are expert his specialty was watercolors ■ a particular branch of medicine or surgery ■ a product, esp. a type of food, that a person or region is famous for making well the local specialties are all seafood ■ [as adj.] meeting particular tastes or needs specialty potatoes for salads 2) Law a contract under seal • Origin: Middle English (denoting special affection or attachment): shortening of Old French especialte, from especial (see special)

[Alex_cs_gsp]

Спасибо!!

Судя по Word(у) тоже,
specialty - это англ. США
speciality - это англ. Великобритания.

specialte - от старофранцузкого?

[Doodie]

что характерно по Oxford English

speciality [ˌspɛʃɪ'alɪti] (& also specialty) (specialities) 1) a pursuit, area of study, or skill to which someone has devoted much time and effort and in which they are expert his speciality was watercolours ■ a product, especially a type of food, which a person or region is famous for making well a restaurant serving freshly made local specialities ■ [as modifier] meeting particular tastes or needs speciality potatoes for salads 2) (often specialty) a branch of medicine or surgery • Origin: late Middle English (denoting the quality of being special or distinctive): from Old French especialite or late Latin specialitas, from Latin specialis (see special)

[Alex_cs_gsp]

Ого прикол, т.е. и по старофранцузкому было два таких слова?