On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:39:31PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:18:25PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 06:10:13PM +0300, Paulius Zaleckas wrote:
> > > Liam Girdwood wrote:

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> > > initialization

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> > Not in the UK :)

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> At the same time I checked other words which I thought ended in -ise.
> The dictionaries all said -ize and didn't list the -ise version.

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> Therefore, I suspect -ise came into use in the late 1980s in the UK.

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> Given my research, I'm intending to use the -ize version myself from
> now on, to support the English ideals. 8)

Heh.  This fits the general pattern where American and English spellings
diverge - usually it's the English spelling which changed rather than
the American one.  It's not normally so recent, though.

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