| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
Ho hum, I sha'n't sleep tonight for fear of being referred to a previous
topic, but I did a 'dir /tit="ize"' and a 'dir/tit= "ise"' and nothing
looked right; hence ...
When asked by some of the locals : 'Is "Authorize" or "Authorise"
correct English; "Organize" or "Organise", etc. ?', I'm afraid I
insisted the "ise" variant. Later, I looked in my Concise Oxford
English Dictionary and found the "ize" variants listed before the
"ise". I always thought the affinity for "z"s was American.
Is anyone able to remove some of this egg from my face; even if only
with some obscure historical explanation ? Or have I had it ?
Thankyou, Iain.
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| 765.1 | reference | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Mon Jan 15 1990 22:34 | 2 |
Topic 46 in jokur::grammar is a discussion entitled,
"What's wrong with 'ize'?"
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| 765.2 | Take your choice! (I think!) | KAOFS::S_BROOK | Here today and here again tomorrow | Mon Jan 15 1990 22:57 | 18 |
> > When asked by some of the locals : 'Is "Authorize" or "Authorise" > correct English; "Organize" or "Organise", etc. ?', I'm afraid I > insisted the "ise" variant. Later, I looked in my Concise Oxford > English Dictionary and found the "ize" variants listed before the > "ise". I always thought the affinity for "z"s was American. > Well, you are not alone on prefering the 'ise' instead of the 'ize' variants ... An earlier discussion in these notes somewhere provided me with some education on one particular 'ize' word which I hated ... "burglarize", which from all accounts is just as valid as "burgle". So, I think it is primarily a matter of the preference of your educators! There are just a few where 'ize' seems better than 'ise' though ... Stuart | |||||
| 765.3 | Attenuated choice. | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Running old protocol | Tue Jan 16 1990 15:38 | 3 |
As I noted in 500.20, the choice isn't always there.
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| 765.4 | TKOV51::DIAMOND | This note is illegal tender. | Wed Jul 04 1990 07:16 | 6 | |
Re .0
> I did a 'dir /tit="ize"' and a 'dir/tit= "ise"' and nothing looked right
That's because you mixed up the parts. tit's a bit titillating,
but the ize just don't have it. Sorry.
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