Heaven help them if they ask for a puff of someones cigarette, in San
Francisco...........
On 5/9/06, b-evans@earthlink.net <b-evans@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Wm. Severin Thompson wrote:
>
> > Would you spell it "customisable"?
> > (Someone is telling me it's spelled with an "s" in the UK)
> >
> >
>
> Yep, that is the way they spell it in the U.K. You will find that they
> they substituted an "s" for the proper "z" in words that end in
> "izable". Just as they throw in an extraneous "u" is so many words,
> such as "labour" and "colour", or misspell the mineral "aluminum" by
> tossing in an errant "I", making (and even CALLING it) "aluminium".
>
> It is just tragic that those educated in the United Kingdom cannot
> spell the English language correctly!!! (And that is not even going
> into the issue of how they misapply terms the English language. Such
> as "fanny", or how they describe parts of an auomobile.)
>
> Buster Evans
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