[HPFGU-Catalogue] British or American spellings

[Barry Arrowsmith]

> I think I know the answer I'll get, but I'll ask anyway.
>
>  In the web application we have so far, I've used American spellings
>  for things (categorize rather than categorise).
>
>  Might as well settle on one way or the other.


Color?
Grey?
Gotten?

Arrgghh!

I suspect the malign influence of Spellcheckers cobbled together 
somewhere in  the vicinity of Seattle. And personally I hate the 
proclivity of turning nouns into verbs by adding -ise anyway. Going a 
step further by using -ize in an effort to contemporize or even 
universalize the constitutionalization of word construction induces 
feelings of martyrization.  (Yet another word this damn machine 
considers an adjunct to civilization as it sees it. )

I must go and lie down in a darkened room.

Barry






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