That’s it, I’m done. I can’t handle it anymore and I have to speak out. You’re all spelling ‘fair’ wrong. It is not ‘fayre’. Look it up, go get the dictionary right now. Collins English Dictionary says that ‘Fayre’ is a “pseudo-archaic spelling of fare”. The Cambridge Dictionary doesn’t even list it as a word.
The only reasoning anyone would use ‘fayre’ is if you are branding an old style ‘fare’, where you’re having a medieval banquet whilst sitting on haystacks calling things “Ye Olde”. If that is your event then brilliant, if not, you’re still using it wrong.
http://www.english-for-students.com/Fair-and-Fare.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/what-is-the-fete-of-our-fayre-language-1276141.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/9390015/Oliver-Pritchett-Its-fair-not-fayre.html
