[Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

[Barnett, Phillip]

On the other hand,  Cambridge University Press and Fowlers Modern English (my personal bible) prefer -ise, as does the entire British newspaper/mass media industry.
Scientific and academic publications seem to prefer -ize.

So I guess the question is whether OSM wants to aspire to 'academic' credentials, or English mainstream cultural credentials.

Phillip



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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Doerr [mailto:doerr.stephen at gmail.com]
Sent: 27 October 2011 13:29
To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging Historic Features

On 27/10/2011 10:57, Graham Jones wrote:
 >    I always think of Civilization being an American spelling

Oh, that old chestnut! No, not at all. For verbs in -ize/-ise (and hence
derived nouns in -ization/-isation), -z- has long been the preferred
spelling for such scholarly British publishers as the Oxford University
Press - including in the great Oxford English Dictionary (published from
1888 onwards).

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Steve

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