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  EDline Vol. 7, no. 30     (3 February 2002)

  Editorial mailing list (digest version)
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  Contents:

         Q & A
  [2rl]  -ise / -ize
            [Offshoot of [2rk] Conventions for scare quotes]

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** [2rl] -ise / -ize
            [Offshoot of [2rk] Conventions for scare quotes]

         Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002
         From: Chris Shaw, chris.shaw00@btopenworld.com

Kathleen Lyle writes

> The Complete Plain Words by Sir Ernest Gowers, first published
> in the late 1940s, was based on style guides intended for the
> Civil Service ... So the -ise spellings were adopted throughout
> the Civil Service, including the Ministry of Education (as it
> then was) and thus presumably to schools.

But not in the Foreign Office, where -ize endings (late
aristocratic period?) were impressed on us raw recruits in the
1960s. I expect I changed everything to -ize then!


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