Re: Customize or customise in UK-targetted texts

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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References:
Customize or customise in UK-targetted texts: From: Moshe Kruger (AllWrite)
RE: Customize or customise in UK-targetted texts: From: Sarah Blake

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