en-GB-oxford LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM
Tex Texin
tex at I18nGuy.com
Fri May 30 03:31:11 CEST 2003
So the technique of adding colo(u)r to a black and white film, is the verb:
colorize, colorise, colourize, or colourise?
;-)
tex
Doug Ewell wrote:
>
> Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:
>
> > Although it is widely believed that en-US and en-GB differ in that
> > the former spells "color" and "civilize" and the latter spells
> > "colour" and "civilise", in fact this is not entirely the case.
> > Oxford spelling prefers the spellings "colour" and "civilize". Oxford
> > prefers -ize because this is the etymological spelling (from Greek
> > -izein).
>
> How does this differ from en-CA? (This is a real question, not a
> rhetorical one implying the new tag should not be registered.) I
> believe Canadian anglophones write "colour" and "civilize".
>
> -Doug Ewell
> Fullerton, California
> http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
>
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