What's in a Contraction?
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:41 pmDSB was first published as Don't Stop Believing:
However, it has come to be popularly referred to as the contracted Don't Stop Believin' instead, and is currently officially printed or identified as such.
As a recent Cleveland.com article puts it,
As a Wikipedia discussion goes,
Of the two DSB forms--full and truncated--which would you rather use? And maybe,...thoughts?
However, it has come to be popularly referred to as the contracted Don't Stop Believin' instead, and is currently officially printed or identified as such.
As a recent Cleveland.com article puts it,
Originally titled "Don't Stop Believing" (the "g" was mysteriously dropped at some point), the song infiltrated the Top 10 in the fall of 1981, back when the seeds of the Iran-Contra scandal were being sown, Luke and Laura got hitched on "General Hospital" and leather-lunged Steve Perry handled lead vocals for Journey.
As a Wikipedia discussion goes,
Believin' vs. Believing
It's odd that all references to the song here, including the title, show the third word in the song's title as "Believin'," but the cover of the 45 single in the photo in the sidebar lists the title as "Believing." This is a discrepancy that needs to be noted and explained in the article. Moncrief 15:58, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia tends to put the item under the article name of which it is most known as - not the name under which it was first published. Just because it was released as "Don't Stop Believing" doesn't mean it isn't much more commonly known as "Don't Stop Believin'", which is what the name of the article should be. Wikipedia titles items as the most common name, not the first: Meat Loaf, Elton John, etc (ie - not Marvin Lee Aday or Reginald Kenneth Dwight). We could easily write that it was first released as "Don't Stop Believing" in the article though. 86.158.196.226 (talk) 15:02, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Of the two DSB forms--full and truncated--which would you rather use? And maybe,...thoughts?
