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December 22[edit]

Fort Laudersdale[edit]

Was "Laudersdale" ever a normal spelling of the fort or city now known as Fort Lauderdale, Florida? File:1874 Beers Map of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina - Geographicus - NCSCGAFL-beers-1874.jpg labels it "Ft. Laudersdale". A Google search returns a mix of recent typos and occasional pre-Internet-era books results, but I'm not clear if they're typos or a variant spelling. Nyttend (talk) 16:54, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I found a 1922 brochure spelling it so ( and, unaware, I certainly would spell it so myself ) but that's a grammatical mirage as it seems? This tells us that it was named after an Army officer. The name was Lauderdale. (to be rescued the one ref in the article, which was moved elsewhere by its provider) --Askedonty (talk) 19:28, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Named after Major William Lauderdale, so any other spelling must be an error. Alansplodge (talk) 18:03, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]