Bastardise.
It's not Greek in origin! :)
Seriously, advertise for instance looks quite normal to me and would
look very strange with a zed. (Yes, that's a joke!)
AndrewF
On 31/10/2005, at 10:55 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>
> 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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