Re: "y" and "r"

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> As you may've noticed, my spelling is also something of a mix. I write
> "colour" and "metre", but "realize" ...
Plenty of Brits, notably including the Oxford English Dictionary, do
the same.  The merger of "-ize" and "-ise" was never accepted in
American spelling (which in this case is conservative) and not
universally accepted on the Islands either.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter