From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 11 16:31:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ocis.ocis.net (ocis.ocis.net [209.52.173.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1427137BA31 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:31:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcash@bigfoot.com) Received: from phoenix (dial-83.ocis.net [209.52.173.215]) by ocis.ocis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA31308; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:30:08 -0700 From: "Freddie Cash" To: Mark Ovens , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:26:43 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: BSDCon East Reply-To: fcash@bigfoot.com Message-ID: <38F35243.31304.FD5A5A0@localhost> In-reply-to: <20000411222112.B235@parish> References: ; from blk@skynet.be on Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:29:24AM +0200 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > My favourite spelling difference is where the English (for the most > part) actually get it wrong. Words ending ~ize are almost always > spelled ~ise here (in books, newspapers etc) yet the OED shows ~ize to be > correct, and it is only in recent versions of the OED that ~ise appears as > an *alternative*. I always use ~ize, and believe that the origin of the > misuse stems from people thinking that because Americans use ~ize that > ~ise must be *correct* . Regardless of "correctness", Canadian English as taught in BC uses ~ise as the "correct" form, and we received harsh reprimands for using the American spellings in school. :-) Freddie Fcash@Bigfoot.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message