Quote Originally Posted by Andy_Faber View Post
THEatre is where English folk go and watch plays, theAYTER is where my yankee pals go to watch movies and gigs
Yes, yes to all that. In fact Americans call it movies and as such going to a movie theatre. Here we go watch 'pictures' at the cinema.

But my question is, in the 1920s did we call it (going to the pictures) as the theatre? And a place to watch plays was also the theatre.
And did them Yankees called it cinema (kinema I believe was how they called it) at first and reverted to theatre later on, while we adopted the word cinema as it refers to today, leaving the theatre solely for plays and the like?

Just curious that's all. Anyone knows?