Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => The Debating Chamber => Topic started by: Colwyn on July 12, 2016, 16:14:04 PM
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Which to use in verbs such as organize/organise? I just heard someone who interviews people for jobs saying his pet hate is people who use US spell checkers and, because of this, spell words as "-ize" and "- ization". What a pity if this man decides not to employ someone because of his mistaken understanding of UK usage of the English language. But I suppose he doesn't realize that his prejudice is based on an erroneous understanding. Pillock.
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My youngest daughter has written a few 'Chick-lit' books and the US on-line readers jump in to criticise some spellings! It infuriates her and the U.K. readers too. A bit of virtual sparring has often occurred!
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That will be "criticize" then, Lotty in traditional UK use. Or have you gone all Frenchified on us?
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I'm in favor of critizise. ;)
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Bloody trouble maker.
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Innit tho'.
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I also not that people write program now and not programme.
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And not, instead of note. ;)
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US on-line readers jump in to criticise some spellings!
Just to clarify this: in UK English both criticize and criticise are accepted as correct. The mistake many people make is to suppose that since the -ize form is standardly used in the US the form is somehow an Americanism. It isn't: it is traditional UK English usage which the Americans have maintained whilst some British people have adopted the French form of -ise. The Oxford English Dictionary will have no truck with this new-fangled Frenchified nonsense:
-ize ... "is in its origin Greek and Latin and, as the pronunciation is also with a z, there is no reason why in English the special French spelling should be followed, in opposition to that which is at once etymological and phonetic. In this Dictionary the termination is uniformly written –ize."
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You're a very wize man Colwyn! ;)
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Oh yeah, a regular wisard.