Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:40:44 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10/15] regulator: documentation - consumer interface |
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:39:31PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:18:25PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 06:10:13PM +0300, Paulius Zaleckas wrote: > > > Liam Girdwood wrote:
> > > initialization
> > Not in the UK :)
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> At the same time I checked other words which I thought ended in -ise. > The dictionaries all said -ize and didn't list the -ise version.
> Therefore, I suspect -ise came into use in the late 1980s in the UK.
> Given my research, I'm intending to use the -ize version myself from > now on, to support the English ideals. 8)
Heh. This fits the general pattern where American and English spellings diverge - usually it's the English spelling which changed rather than the American one. It's not normally so recent, though.
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