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Re: Spelling under xy3
- Subject: Re: Spelling under xy3
- From: John Negus jxz@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:05:01 +0200
Bill Troop wrote:
>
> >...
> > *ise
> >....
> >Somewhere (probably in XyI) I read that that tells the speller to accept
> >the word-ending `-ise' (as a variant of -ize) for instance. But I can't
> >get it to work in 3.55.
> >It's of more use to Europeans than Americans, obviously.
>
> It's an interesting technical point, but why not simplify life and accept
> -ize as correct and the favored form not just of Americans, but of Fowler,
> OUP and, until recently, the Times (London) ?
The problem exercizes me.
John
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