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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