Alison MacG Mar 23, 2012:

@ Horst How about something like "We forge new paths"?

@ Angelika - Is this the Erl Festival?

Horst Huber (X) Mar 23, 2012:

Maybe too tame? I suspect the music festival would prefer something like "we do not just serve one groove".

BrigitteHilgner Mar 23, 2012:

Thank you, Alison I was not aware of this difference - next time I'll look at my dictionary of phrasal verbs before I post an answer. :-)

Steffen Walter Mar 23, 2012:

Interesting insights Thank you, Alison!

Alison MacG Mar 23, 2012:

Cater
Phrasal verbs
cater for somebody/something
to provide the things that a particular person or situation needs or wants
The class caters for all ability ranges.
cater to somebody/something
to provide the things that a particular type or person wants, especially things that you do not approve of
They only publish novels which cater to the mass market.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/cater

Alison MacG Mar 23, 2012:

@ Steffen - What Fowler has to say on the matter Fowler’s Modern English Usage, Revised Third Edition 1998, Reissued with title change 2004 – Oxford University Press

cater (verb). The more usual construction is with for: to provide a supply of food for (some takeaway shops cater for people who order food by telephone); (in transferred use) to provide (entertainment, education, etc.) for, to make provision for the needs of a group, a minority, etc. (cater for all age groups; cater for the needs of people made homeless by the earthquake; perhaps they only cater for an élite spiritual clientele).

The verb is occasionally constructed with to (perhaps after pander to): catering to the national taste and vanity – Thackeray, 1840; Nine years afterwards we find him … catering to the low tastes of James I – C. Kingsley, 1860; He feels cheated because society does not cater to his irrational wishes – B. Bettelheim, 1960; Unlike other corporate hospitals, ours is just a diagnostic centre which caters to everybody – Business India 1986.

In AmE, cater to is said to be more usual than cater for.

See also the definition from the Oxford Advanced Leaner's Dictionary below.

Steffen Walter Mar 23, 2012:

Good to know, Clive Would you then say that "to cater to" and "to cater for" are used equally frequently in the UK?

Clive Phillips Mar 23, 2012:

cater for (UK usage) Angelika, yes, 'cater for' is in common usage in the UK.