Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15909 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2004 13:12:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ptb-mxscan01.plus.net) (212.159.14.235) by ptb-mailstore02.plus.net with SMTP; 14 Jan 2004 13:12:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 27623 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2004 13:12:02 -0000 X-Filtered-by: Plusnet (hmail v1.01) X-Spam-detection-level: 11 Received: from ptb-mxcore01.plus.net (212.159.14.215) by ptb-mxscan01.plus.net with SMTP; 14 Jan 2004 13:12:00 -0000 Received: from post.thorcom.com ([193.82.116.20]) by ptb-mxcore01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1AgkoS-0006gp-2q for dave@picks.force9.co.uk; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:12:00 +0000 X-Fake-Domain: majordom Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1Agknz-000344-Ne for rs_out@blacksheep.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:11:31 +0000 Received: from [165.254.4.18] (helo=mail.mcf.com) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1Agkny-00033v-Hx for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:11:30 +0000 X-Fake-Domain: parissn2 Received: from parissn2 (81.57.233.115) by mail.mcf.com with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 3.2.2) for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:11:29 -0500 X-Bad-Message-ID: no DNS (parissn2) Message-ID: <001301c3daa0$082634d0$0702a8c0@parissn2> From: "Stewart Nelson" To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org References: <5.1.0.14.0.20040114120559.0329e590@u0019445.kuleuven.be> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:12:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: Re: LF: Re. Timing GPS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PN-SPAMFiltered: yes X-Spam-Rating: 2 Hi Rik and all, Many words ending in -ize (American), have a preferred spelling -ise in British English. http://www.bartleby.com/68/45/5645.html http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/6524/spelling.html On searching the Net, I also found an article claiming that this was caused an influence from the French. http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-2000.1/msg00563.html --Stewart (third generation American, but 1/4 English) > PS : The spell checker insists on writing synchronization (with Z, not S). > It looks odd to me, any native English who can confirm this ? (or is it one > of these subtile differences between British and American English)