On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 02:12:39 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 19:57:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Please note, OED (which is the definition of the English
language
whatever any USA upstarts may try to pretend)
Glad to hear it. Please tell your countrymen to prefer the
'-ize' suffix, as we colonials do, to the '-ise' one, which is
a French affectation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling
Funny how people argue about English spelling, because English
has no spelling at all. It's irrational, inconsistent and part of
the English class system. Why is it that English has the highest
rate of dyslexics while Spanish has a very low rate of dyslexics?
Because Spanish spelling is much more consistent and phonetic
than English spelling. Gosh, you dare not say this!
Apart from that, spelling is merely a convention you get used to.
People oppose to "-ize" because they were brought up with "-ise".
If you have a new generation of Englishmen that were taught
"-ize", they would find "-ise" strange. It's ridiculous how
people get attached to stuff like this.
