Not so much.
The "ize" ending is a Greek method of making nouns into verbal forms.
If you are happy transliterating the Greek zeta (from which you get
your beloved "zed") as an "s," you are welcome to bastardize
accordingly. Nothing to do with Latin, I don't think.
You're right about the paucity of grammar threads. All this boring
camera stuff...
Joel W.
On 10/30/05, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> >
> > I started to agree. Then I realized you are using Australian
> > spellings for the words. Hmm. Who cannot trust whom?
> >
> >
> >
> > Winsor
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