From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 24 18:29:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1094E1065716 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:29:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C2B08FC0C for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:29:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so167144ewy.43 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:29:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uFd9LbZ+YNHqsUvgjMV/Q33v6PqU57XKIcOr/ETO4uM=; b=d5EwJv5c8VBg3KMoQdEh+6ZkPHnZ1mOeVlAjO0uhe0DU+Av05wTyXiZRgru0LeqzRe KWSr1O3K2ON2pRnuwWsrgaVzOxDd3vV5kCliP+4O6iq3z6GJYKgttIjBiaMkwyNcV/FU Biqu4y7W8FIUt4865wx7vMZhWEDL99WFmGFNg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fExwUupsSxefnxe9ntwCTGn3SnZCJHea4b4F3TGdV705C6YG3CuyPxt7CjVYIJePRX f1IEu7DmyNLH0m6Vyaww8BdGNd0Z+5a7TI/hOSKnJzG0/ZaJ7emzfFvk1hjOJsoEORkf h1ZfE97SznsZybbyHPhufPTzx6U+D/7C4tPmA= Received: by 10.211.178.12 with SMTP id f12mr1746079ebp.33.1245868143963; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:29:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm525439eye.46.2009.06.24.11.28.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:29:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:28:47 +0100 From: RW To: ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090624192847.551c8fd6@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20090624145313.GB944@straylight.m.ringlet.net> References: <200906181114.43935.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <20090623203608.GB15815@comcast.net> <20090623213516.GQ64856@carrick.bishnet.net> <200906240959.16325.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <20090624145313.GB944@straylight.m.ringlet.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.2; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: [RFC] New category proposal, i18n X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:29:06 -0000 On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:53:13 +0300 Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 03:13:53PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > [snip] > > Though I still reserve the right to hate the inconsistent use of 'z' > > (why internationalize but surmise; > > I guess "surmise" just hasn't been US-ized yet :P It's not really a matter of US v's British English, the consistent use of "ise" is demotic British English, some better spellcheckers do have an "ize" option for the British dictionary. Z is preferred because it was spelt with a zeta in Greek, ise is typically used where the word came from a french verb using ise, or where the verb comes from a noun that already contains ise, eg. advertise comes from advertisement not advert-ize.