Re: [VERY OFFTOPIC] Boring dissertation on English / American languages..
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 22:50:34 +0100 (BST)
> This sounds slightly unlikely, since, as the Concise Oxford Dictionary
> says, the "-ize" suffix has been in use since the 16th century and is
> not an "Americanism"; also, I don't think words such as advertise, surprise
> or exercise have ever been spelled with a "z" (that's "zed" (-: ).
The use of -ize or -ise is a matter of the word origin. The americans dumped
that although never as a concious policy as with most linguistics. The brits
are following the same path bit by bit
Alan
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