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Notes about the 50 plus DC

  1. 50plusDC.com is copyright Mike Elsden. If you wish to reproduce any of the content, please contact me by e-mail. I will normally readily grant permission to reproduce small extracts from the web site subject to acknowledgement of the source.
  2. 50 plus DC contains the personal views of Mike together with facts drawn from a wide range of sources. The personal views are mine and mine alone, but in a web site of this size it is inevitable that some errors could have crept in amongst the facts. If you spot an error, please alert me by e-mail.
  3. American visitors to the site may be a little perplexed by some of the spelling. Nearly 250 years of separate development have resulted in  a divergence in spelling on the two sides of the Atlantic.  It’s not the Bristish or Americans being difficult, it’s just the way things happened. Because this is a British web site, it uses British spelling where appropriate, but not to the ridiculous lengths of one British tabloid newspaper which after 9/11 insisted on referring to the World Trade Centre. Buildings and places are spelled the American way, so while a town may have a harbour, the town of Bar Harbor is spelled in the Americans way.
  4. During the Victorian era, the UK and USA also drifted apart when inventing new words. Most people know that a car in the US has a hood and a trunk but in the UK it has a bonnet and a boot. A tram in the UK is a streetcar or trolley in the US. Others are much less well known, for example people walk along a sidewalk in the US but it is called the pavement in the UK - in the US anyone walking on the pavement could be run over! Where the words differ on the two sides of the Atlantic both are usually used to avoid confusion.
  5. Cookies - don’t use ‘em, so don’t ask visitors to accept ’em.
  6. Web designers can be an indisciplined lot and as a result links to external web sites can be very difficult to keep up to date. In order to minimise the risk of broken links, we try where possible to link only to Top Level Domain home pages, as these are far less likely to change. We are now finding it increasingly necessary to break this rule so if you encounter a broken link, please advise me by e-mail .
  7. The site has been tested with Firefox, Chrome and Microsoft Edge, which have generally displayed the web site correctly although Microsoft Edge sometimes fails to load subpages.

Mike and Jen Elsden travelled together throughout the USA and Canada for nearly 40 years. Their adventures were brought to an end by the sudden death of Jen at the end of March 2020. Since then 50plusDC has been left largely unchanged as a tribute to Jen. There is a lot more material that can be added to the web site from our last journeys to the USA, and I hope to start doing this during 2023.

There is a known technical problem with the web site that is preventing some drop down menus and tabs from working, this will be investigated before any new material is added.

 

January 2023

 

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