Bazaar-NG traffic #2

[Robey Pointer]

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On 11 Oct 2005, at 7:06, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 08:44 -0500, John A Meinel wrote:
>
>> Scott James Remnant wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 03:21 -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
>>>
>>>> = Decentralized, not Distributed =
>>>
>>> ITYM "Decentralised" ;-)
>>
>> Not according to Merriam Websters.
>>
>>
> It would probably help if you used an English dictionary, rather  
> than an
> American one ;)
>
>
> (for those going meh -- there's an ancient rift between the two  
> primary
>  UK educational institutions, Oxford and Cambridge universities.  One
>  prefers the -ize form of words, the other prefers the more recently
>  introduced -ise forms.  American English has tended to take the -ize
>  form, largely because the split predates the introduction of -ise.)

This is getting way off-topic but:

If you scan the wikipedia entries for English & American English (I  
got really bored on the train a few weeks ago), it turns out that the  
pronunciation of American English is closer to the original than the  
UK, which changed their pronunciation of (for example) "a" post- 
coloniZation.

So I say to Scott: You poseurs, following fads... ;)

robey

PS. I think the arcane spelling of English is probably one of the  
least important things we could be discussing. ;)  As long as we use  
good grammar and spellings that are generally accepted *somewhere*, I  
think things will work out.

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