LL-L "Orthography" 2003.02.17 (05) [E]

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From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2003.02.16 (10) [E]

Ian wrote:

"Firstly, I'd write _realize_, _civilize_ etc myself,
as would a number of London broadsheets. In fact, this
is the original spelling (my 1948 Oxford dictionary
gives no other option), so it is British English (and
subsequent forms in other Commonwealth countries) that
have undergone the 'innovation'."

Interesting. /z/ always looks too harsh to my eye, and I certainly never use
it. (Nor does the Guardian - also a London broadsheet - as far as I am
aware.) There is still a certain flux in Non-US English that allows us to
write "aging" or "ageing" and "program" or "programme" (in Australia, the
former is preferred for all contexts). Perhaps we have hyper-corrected to
/s/ as the influence of US English has become more perfidious.

I wonder if we have a Nynorsk-type situation, where media self-identified as
"progressive" or "radical" (which the Guardian most certainly would say it
was) follow more "nationalistic" orthographies.

Go raibh maith agat

Criostóir.
PS: By the way, Ian, there should be a fada over the first /i/ in my
forename too, but the computer I use cannot easily display this so I usually
omit it.

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