Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:26:43 -0700 From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@bigfoot.com> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <38F35243.31304.FD5A5A0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000411222112.B235@parish> References: <v04220805b5174e9bbae6@[195.238.21.91]>; from blk@skynet.be on Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:29:24AM %2B0200
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> 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
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