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Subject:Re: Customize or customise in UK-targetted texts From:Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> To:Sarah Blake <Sarah -dot- Blake -at- microfocus -dot- com> Date:Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:17:26 -0500
Sarah Blake wrote:
> In general, '-ise' is the UK spelling, whereas '-ize' is the US (or
> 'international') spelling. Most British people will find neither
> jarring.
But beware advertise. It's not advertize in any version of pure English
on either shore. Or do we merely shovel sand against the tide? Look what
happened to gaol.
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