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Subject: Re: [ubl] Specialised vs. specialized
Jon, I do agree with you on this. I just had the same thing at a UN/CEFACT meeting in Bonn. All spellings that had previously had used an "s" rather than a "z" have been put on the block to be changed to the OED preferred spelling -- using the "z". Regards, alan <<< Memo from jon.bosak@sun.com@Internet on 14 April, 2004, 08:50:07 PM Wednesday >>> jon.bosak@sun.com@Internet on 14 Apr 2004, 20:50 Wednesday Please respond to jon.bosak@sun.com@Internet To: ubl cc: (bcc: Alan Stitzer) Subject: [ubl] Specialised vs. specialized Folks, I've just made a truly sad discovery: a usage I thought was preferred British is not. We decided a while ago to use Oxford English, and that means the Oxford English Dictionary. I thought up till now that Oxford English meant "specialised" rather than "specialized." But on checking I have just discovered that not only does the OED prefer "ize" to "ise" *in general*, but it does not even have an entry for "specialised." And if it ain't in the OED, it ain't English no matter where you live. (The form with the s does appear in some of the historical citations, but unlike "despatch," it doesn't rate a listing as a recognized alternative. Same with "customise," which doesn't even appear in citations.) Unless someone can find me a British authority of equal weight to the contrary (and no, I don't count something like Chambers as equal to the OED), I'm going to have to change this. Fortunately this will be a fairly straightforward task in the master document text, the file names, and the schemas, and I'm up to doing it for the build due out Friday night. But it will also require changes in the following two illustrations, for which I do not have the original art: Figure 2 Figure B-5 Jon To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed from the roster of the OASIS TC), go to http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/members/leave_workgroup.php . To: ubl@lists.oasis-open.org@Internet cc: (bcc: CN=Alan Stitzer/OU=NYC-NY/OU=US/OU=Marsh/O=MMC) From: jon.bosak@sun.com@Internet
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