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Marketing - Marketing / Market Research / Filming/producing a commercial | | English term or phrase: commercial/ad spot | Is one of these preferable/more common for British English? As an American, I would immediately favor commercial (just as I favoured favor).
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| | English translation:advertisement | Explanation:
I'm from the UK and I would use "advertisement".
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Note added at 12 mins (2005-04-06 21:25:33 GMT)
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Commercial isn\'t wrong but I associate it with US English more and personally prefer \"advertisement\".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4391731.stm
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Note added at 14 mins (2005-04-06 21:27:05 GMT)
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or \"advert\", of course.
\"TV advert\".
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Note added at 17 mins (2005-04-06 21:30:45 GMT)
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Refs don\'t really help as there are just as many for \"commercial\", but here are some anyway:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4230051.stm
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/html/home/newsandcampaigns/video.htm (\"Some adverts contain shocking images and were only shown after the 9pm watershed\")
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Amy Williams
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:19
| Grading comment Thanks. I talked to the client, and in this case, advertisement was spot on.
2 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer |
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1 min confidence:  commercial
Explanation:
commercial, definitely.
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Note added at 3 mins (2005-04-06 21:16:23 GMT)
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\'commercial\' is more widely used, sometimes you hear \'ad\', but I have never heard \'ad spot\'
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9 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +7 advertisement
Explanation:
I'm from the UK and I would use "advertisement".
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Note added at 12 mins (2005-04-06 21:25:33 GMT)
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Commercial isn\'t wrong but I associate it with US English more and personally prefer \"advertisement\".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4391731.stm
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Note added at 14 mins (2005-04-06 21:27:05 GMT)
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or \"advert\", of course.
\"TV advert\".
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Note added at 17 mins (2005-04-06 21:30:45 GMT)
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Refs don\'t really help as there are just as many for \"commercial\", but here are some anyway:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4230051.stm
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/html/home/newsandcampaigns/video.htm (\"Some adverts contain shocking images and were only shown after the 9pm watershed\")
| Amy Williams
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 6
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| | Grading comment | Thanks. I talked to the client, and in this case, advertisement was spot on. |
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The translation workplace 
