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meaning - "Favored" vs. "favorited"


We're making a website in which users can mark some objects as objects they like. Since we're not native English speakers here, a dispute evolved around what's the correct way to call this user-object relationship in the past tense: favored or favorited. For example, should it be Jack favored Jill's video or Jack favorited Jill's video?


From googling, I suspect both forms are correct or at least commonly acceptable, but I'm wondering if one of them is more correct, if there's a slight semantic difference I'm missing or if you'd think one is more proper where the other is more colloquial.



Answer



You should use the verb favourite and not favour. Favour means show an approval or preference for, while favourite means record to enable quick access. It is true that you favourite a video on a website if you like it, but the sense you want to convey here is not that you like the video but that you mark the video in some way. Of course, the past tense of favourite is favourited.


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