en-GB-oxford LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM

Doug Ewell dewell at adelphia.net
Thu May 29 22:29:22 CEST 2003


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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