Tsk. Standard English. If I used Oz dialect, you wouldn't understand
much at all. It's common for North Americans to standardise the 'ize'
ending and everyone else in the english speaking world to use 'ise'
although the real distinction is between Greek and Latin roots, I
believe.
Great - it's ages since we had a grammar stoush on the list.
AndrewF
On 31/10/2005, at 3:37 AM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
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> I started to agree. Then I realized you are using Australian
> spellings for the words. Hmm. Who cannot trust whom?
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> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
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> On Oct 30, 2005, at 1:02 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
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>> t's a murkin thing innit? Like utilise instead of use, burglarise
>> instead of burgle, orientate instead of orient and turning absolutely
>> everything into a verb.
>> We just can't trust them with the language, now can we?
>> AndrewF
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