[Mgs] Their back!!

[Simon Matthews]

barrie,

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Barrie Robinson <barrie at look.ca> wrote:
> Mark,
>

> is recognise (spelt with an "s" - as that is the English way) that
> it's is a shortened version of  it is.

The use of -ise is actually relatively recent in English usage. I have
a Compact  Oxford English dictionary that I bought in 1975 -- it shows
words spelled using  -ize as preferable to words spelled -ise.

More recently, there was an episode of Inspector Morse (the original
series with  John Thaw), in which he identified an educated writer
through the use of -ize spellings.