On 29 Aug 2005 at 8:54, Joel S. Freund wrote: > Rayner is the correct spelling. >
Not so fast, history breath. This may be a case in which there is no correct spelling (and we've been through this before). Wayback on October 10th, 2003 I contributed: --------------------------------------------------------- It seems there's a fair bit of confusion concerning the correct spelling of her name even if, in the famous Watson and Rayner paper, that's the way it appears. According to Thorne and Watson (Watson's son!) (1999). her obituary in the New York Times spelled it "Raynor". Thorne and Watson call this a misspelling but, honestly, has the New York Times ever been wrong about anything? And the APA Monitor also spells it that way (see http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec99/ss3.html). It gets worse (or better). Thorne and Watson also say that on her marriage certificate, it's spelled "Raynar". ------------------------------------------------------- So presumably it was Watson who spelled it "Rayner". The definitive answer would be to ask how the Raynors/Rayners/Raynars spelled it. Stephen Thorne, B., & Watson, J. (1999). When was Rosalie Rayner born? Psychological Reports, 85, 269-270. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 Department of Psychology fax:(819) 822-9661 Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
