Re: American to English spelling

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 16:24

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In article <662@riegel.prosys.se> ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin) writes:
>I tried to point my remark the other way. There is a group of islands
>outside the coast of France, where, rumor has it, use of the '-ize'
>form is taken to be a particularly uncivilized and benighted mode...

Ah, but they're not islands any more, at least the main one isn't.  There
is now a dry-land connection to France.  So the Academie Francaise will
straighten them out. :-) :-) :-)
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"I don't *want* to be normal!"         | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
"Not to worry."                        |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry

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