Newsgroups: comp.text Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: American to English spelling Message-ID: <1990Nov19.162432.10773@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <27216@cs.yale.edu> <661@riegel.prosys.se> <662@riegel.prosys.se> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 90 16:24:32 GMT In article <662@riegel.prosys.se> ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin) writes: >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... Ah, but they're not islands any more, at least the main one isn't. There is now a dry-land connection to France. So the Academie Francaise will straighten them out. :-) :-) :-) -- "I don't *want* to be normal!" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Not to worry." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry