Comments on: Before and after

By: minishorts

minishorts — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:12:56 +0000

oh well. the moment i leave this place, i’m going throw all these things to the wind. and be a true blue sociolinguist. while that lasts, of course.

By: Albert Ng

Albert Ng — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:49:23 +0000

Just thought of this:

It’s ‘exercise’ not ‘exercize’ and thus ‘realise’ may come more naturally. I love American English and spelling it as ‘realize’ though. Pronouncing ‘realization’ sounds more rough, sharp, more… American, compared to the knight-holding-cup-of-tea ways of pronouncing ‘realisation’. However, I prefer pronouncing ‘Z’ as ‘Zak’. More oomph.

However, these are merely minor annoyances in comparison to things that make me twitch in mother-never-teach-you-England rage, like ’stuffs’.

By: minishorts

minishorts — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:09:36 +0000

OUP invariably uses the -ize ending for the confusing sets, so in every OUP publication (dictionaries, reference materials, storybooks, online materials), you’ll see those words spelt such… hence the OED of course, opts for what I’ve listed above.

The above is set for the benefit of Malaysian students. The MOE recognizes the OALD as the reference dictionary, just like how the Kamus Dewan is recognized as the reference dictionary for Bahasa Melayu (or is it Malaysia?).

By: AWM user

AWM user — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 06:53:21 +0000

wow! wait a second… I think I just entered the matrix by swallowing the wrong pill.

all my life I was raised to believe that “organiZe” is evil! pure evil… now it is correct?

*arrrGghhHH* my world is crumbling on me. HelP!

By: T

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:22:18 +0000

Oops, your blog software mangled my google link.
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By: T

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:18:55 +0000

Actually, the Oxford English Dictionary (the actual OED, not the OALD) prefers “realize” to “realise”. You’d be surprised to learn that -ize suffixes are not really American inventions. Link

I prefer -ize endings myself.

As for which sentence is correct, I would say they are both correct, but the first one sounds better. Often, the easiest way to check usage is to google it and see what turns up. Link

By: cindy

cindy — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:15:41 +0000

omg. is dat really english? i never knew my english so teruk lar. i mean those 2 sentences… all sounds correct

By: eyeris

eyeris — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:12:48 +0000

The original sentence sounds a lot more correct to me. that said, BOTH sentences seem to be very dodgy to me. certainly not something I would use.

I just realised I have yet to sit in the backseat of MY car ever since I got it… weird.