Re: USAGE: -i/yse vs -i/yze in England (and what the heck, NZ too).

Sorry for not replying sooner! Been busy and all...

>Yeah, but most /z/s in English are spelt with <s>, so why change? And,
>imho, <z> is just about the ugliest letter in the world! (Although I've
>modified my console font to make it look a bit better)
>Any excuse to be rid of the creature is a good one! (I once created a
>revised spelling system that used <s> for /z/ (and <c> for /s/)...)
True. Although, most z sounds that are spelt with an s are plurals. I
don't like z much either ('cept in cursive, but then, even x looks good in
cursive), but it does serve a purpose.


>Me? I find the British spellings illogical, the American revisions
>illogical (why get rid of the <u> in <colour>, when it's presence doesn't
>do anything (it being an unstressed syllable),
Well, maybe because it's presence doesn't do anything... ;) And we
American's are just lazy... *playful sarcasm*

>but leave the <u> in <four> intact, even though that's the one that's
>going to make it rhyme with `hour'?).
There'd be confusion with "for" tho...

>(Apart from the use of -ise, Aussie spellings differ from British ones in
>that we prefer -m to -mme in such words as `program' and `gram', on -s-
>in words like `focusing' and `jail'.
Yeah... Imo, less letters are better! ;)

>On the other hand, our spelling is imho vastly better in every way except
>comma-in-lists than the American, especially with regards to punctuation.
Hehe... every other English speaker/ other language speaker would say
that, you know.

>Why use dbl quotes for a single quote?
You mean, as in: She said, "I'm going now."/ She said, 'I'm going
now.'?Yeah, I like the latter better, cause it makes more sense when you
have a quote within a quote to use two.

>Why put punctuation marks within a quote when they don't belong there?
>
>Tristan
Emphasis? I don't know. What do you mean? Do you mean when we put the
period inside the quotes at the end of a sentence? Well, I don't know why
we do that, but I personally don't do it for things like: She called me
"strange".

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The Aquamarine Demon
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