barrie,
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca> wrote:
> Mark,
>
> is recognise (spelt with an "s" - as that is the English way) that
> it's is a shortened version of it is.
The use of -ise is actually relatively recent in English usage. I have
a Compact Oxford English dictionary that I bought in 1975 -- it shows
words spelled using -ize as preferable to words spelled -ise.
More recently, there was an episode of Inspector Morse (the original
series with John Thaw), in which he identified an educated writer
through the use of -ize spellings.
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