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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: spelling
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 02:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87adyzn7ep.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F0EDAE27-BD11-11D5-8895-003065C86F94@apple.com>

Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com> writes:

> As long as we [i.e. Joseph Myers] are fixing this, do we want to establish
> consistent spellings for "initializ/se" and "optimiz/se"?  Both variants
> occur in the sources.  There are probably others.  (I know, this is a case
> for i18n, but it's not there.)

Fowler suggets that the '-s-' is the consequence of gallofication,
and recommends using the '-ize' variants were possible (usually
if the word is of remote Greek descent).  Of course, some kind of
verbing disease exists, and sometimes, '-ize' is used in this context,
although it should be avoided.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-10  2:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-09 17:01 spelling Dale Johannesen
2001-10-09 19:00 ` spelling Joe Buck
2001-10-10  2:37 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-10-09 23:55 spelling dewar
2001-10-10  5:21 ` spelling Joseph S. Myers

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