BattleTechWiki talk:Spacecraft Portal

Battlecruiser vs. Battle Cruiser

I did a cursory online dictionary search and the result was that "battle cruiser" should always be spelled as two words. Now I'm not a native speaker of English and if BrokenMnemonic says it's always "battlecruiser" then I'm inclined to believe him. It's weird though. Perhaps "battle cruiser" is American spelling? If so, we should adopt it as this wiki seeks to follow US spelling. Frabby (talk) 06:55, 6 August 2015 (PDT)

Wikipedia uses battlecruiser consistently, and the Oxford online dictionaries use battlecruiser as both the British English and US English form. I've also only ever seen the term battlecruiser in military texts, not battle-cruiser or battle cruiser, and I've just looked at the Concise Oxford Dictionary on my desk and that also only uses battlecruiser. It also appears that the Imperial War Museum uses battlecruiser as the correct spelling. BrokenMnemonic (talk) 07:15, 6 August 2015 (PDT)

That's what I get for relying on a single translation page which curiously doesn't recognize or acknowledge "battlecruiser". With the overwhelming proof you present I'll just go back and revert everything to battlecruiser. Thanks for clearing this up! Frabby (talk) 07:27, 6 August 2015 (PDT)