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MyOlde
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Haliburton, Ontario, Canada
Jun 1999
time: 05:32
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Typos in subject heading: should be "Conquests' cover"
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nproenca
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quote:
Originally posted by MyOlde
Typos in subject heading: should be "Conquests' cover" |
Well, English is not my mother language.
Anyway, if written in Latin it would be "lapsus teclae".
And no, Latin is not my mother language, I'm not that old :-)
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Algernon Pondlife
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Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer mediaeval.
Of course "color" is an English spelling that travelled to the colonies before a major French incursion influenced English in England.
To get more up to date, civilization is still the legitimate English (UK) spelling. Dictionaries recognize civilisation as an alternative, but it is only in tha last twenty years that the English have started to make the false assumption that the z is particularly American and have begun to reject it here. And it is the advent of the ubiquitous spell-checker and its deference to this misconception that has accelerated the loss of z in many English words.
I see at least one typographical error above. this medium lends itself to such. Lifeistooshort!
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Algernon Pondlife
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There is a whole range of words that can legitimately end in -ise or -ize in English. Dictionaries traditionally have given preference to -ize up to and including Chambers 21st Century (in1999! the most recent one I have referenced). This is true for the whole English speaking world with the exception of the USA where the -ize is considered manadatory. (of course, there is also a list of words for which -ise is mandatory throughout, but it is a smaller list). The -ize preference is to do with the Greek root words and endings and is therefore not arbitray.
However, English is a living language and there is a clear drift away from -ize at least in the UK, largely for the reasons I mentioned earlier. I rather hope that it will be a long time, if ever, before the -ize actually becomes obsolete, but the false perception that it is an American thing is growing rapidly and it is having a strong influence in this country.
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26-11-2003 03:38
Of course the 'Brits' have been telling us 'Yanks' that same thing for years now. 
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