What is the language "British"?
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Fri Sep 1 09:56:45 UTC 2006
On Friday 01 September 2006 10:15, Ian Astley wrote:
> For example, in contrast to most
> "British English" norms, I insist on the -ize ending for verbalizing
> nouns because that is the traditional British spelling
Is it? I understood that the 'correct' 's' or 'z' depends upon whether the
word has a Latin or Greek root. Since few of us these days have a classical
education, the difference seems to have largely died out. Personally, I just
tell my spellchecker to recognise and accept my preferred, Anglicised,
version.
Few people have any problem understanding, whether the British or US English
spelling is used. Rarely do I have a problem with the mis-spellings from
those who obviously have English as a second language. What I find utterly
incomprehensible is SMS - thanks for the example, Ed ;-)
Anne
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