Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!liuida!prosys!ath From: ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: American to English spelling Message-ID: <662@riegel.prosys.se> Date: 18 Nov 90 07:43:00 GMT References: <27216@cs.yale.edu> <661@riegel.prosys.se> Organization: TeleSoft AB, Linkoping, Sweden Lines: 19 In article kim@Software.Mitel.com (Kim Letkeman) writes: >In article <661@riegel.prosys.se> I (ath@prosys.se) wrote: >| That's the OED speaking. I doubt if it means anything, since the OED >| also says that the '-ize' form of verbs is to be preferred to '-ise' >| (when the root is of Greek origin). And nobody seems to bother about >| that. > >Well, almost everyone around here uses the -ize form. Sorry, that was unintentional sarcasm. I tried to point my remark the other way. There is a group of islands outside the coast of France, where, rumor has it, use of the '-ize' form is taken to be a particularly uncivilized and benighted mode of expression, ``Fowler and the OED to the contrary notwithstanding''. -- Anders Thulin ath@prosys.se {uunet,mcsun}!sunic!prosys!ath Telesoft Europe AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden