Check the Oxford English Dictionary and Fowler's Modern English Usage (the section called -ise, -ize) before you criticize

Important lesson: Microsoft Word is not an authoritative source on spelling and grammar

[Edited by carl - 10/29/2002 4:32:47 PM]

 

Or alternatively, look here.

 

Ahh - Google - the IT consultants friend

Ever been on the phone when someone asks you a trivia question and you have to type quietly whilst stalling untill you can get google to give you the answer

Deano

[Edited by dsmith - 10/29/2002 4:40:07 PM]

 

I always thought the the "ise" is the English way, and "ize" was the American way...

 

Google? That wasn't a link to google - it was a link to the english usage FAQ, a site I use frequently when pedantically arguing the toss with people about apostrophe usage, etc, etc.

 

Soz Mark,

I had mistakenly assumed you'd found the link via a quick google. Didn't realise it was in your favourites under the "Pedant's Corner" section

Deano

 

LMAO at you lot!

{Was there anything wrong with that sentence?}

 

Actually, that should be Pedants' Corner.

 

As much as it pains me to say it, criticize is in my Little Oxford Dictionary.

 

Must be wrong, then, judging by previous performance.

 

So Carl is wrong as well then?

 

As much as I hate to prolong a thread for the sake of it - Why Pedants' Corner not Pedant's Corner

I was under the impression Pedant's would be correct to describe a corner belonging to a single Pedant (i.e. you) rather than a corner belonging to mulitiple Pedants.

Of course if you share your IE favourites with other like minded pedants than I stand humbly corrected.

Deano

[Edited by dsmith - 10/29/2002 5:11:32 PM]

 

Deano,

You didn't edit your post for a spelling or grammatical error did you ?

EDIT. (like I just did)


[Edited by Nimbus - 10/29/2002 5:14:51 PM]

 

Me ? Surely not

But I was forgetting it was gone 5 so Mark will have been out of the office faster than a rat up a drain pipe We'll have to wait until tomorrow morning for a repsonse

Deano

 

LOL. Unfortunately (or fortunately), I will have no Net access tomorrow, so will have to catch up on this one later in the week.

 

Surely it must be Pedants' Corner as both Mark and I would be in it

 

Exactly. Pedants' Corner is where the pedants hang out.

 

Surely Pedant's Corner more accurately be described as where they turn? Pedant's Rest would be the place where they hang out, I should have thought.

Bros

 

Not really. There's not a lot of turning going on at Speakers' Corner, is there?

I'll e-mail SDB and see if we can get a new forum set up

 

Another few posts and I'll best somebody posts about the pedants' CORNER in this thread.

 

The pedants are revolting!

 

No, they just smell awful.

 

My dog's got no nose.....
How does he smell?

etc. ;-)

 

So that would be in long-hand, Mark?

 

Bah. Too used to email.

 

Bah???
You've been reading "The Beano" again haven't you? :
Alcazar

 

Of course. I find it more intellectually stimulating than the Sun or the Mirror.

Gadzooks!

 

Mark, no it isn't.

 

While your looking, is there another word for thesaurus????

BB

 

Beemerboy, that would be a "whilst" then, wouldn't it..?