Talk:A capella

We could probably discuss this spelling for ever. Somebody has even created a web page about it. 

According to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, the most widely accepted spelling is a cappella. Many web pages   and the A-Cappella Music FAQ agree.

Some writers   use a cappella in their own writing, reserving a capella for quotations, titles and meta tags, acknowleding it to be incorrect. Others, and The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, acknowledge what people are actually writing and hedge their bets, accepting a capella as a valid alternative spelling. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary takes this position, yet also confirms that Capelle means goat and is the name of a star.

Some apparently authoritative sources also concede acappella as a most popular de facto usage.

Some writers use both a cappella and a capella without appearing to notice the variation. Sometimes they are humorous.

One widely quoted purist  in support of a cappella alleges
 * In truth, a capella means in your hair, a cappello means in your hat, and A Capella is an astronomical reference to the first planet circling the star Capella in the constellation Auriga.

The popular vote: Google finds 247,000 hits for a capella, 205,000 for a cappella and 77,600 for acappella. EdH 15:34, 3 Aug 2003 (UTC)