Timeline for What should the standard spelling be - British or US?
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| Mar 13, 2011 at 3:01 | comment | added | Mike Baranczak | @bananakata: pernicious nonsense. In a US audience, 90% won't even know what the correct US spelling is. And the other 10% are also the ones who watch BBC shows, so they'll be cool with it. | |
| Aug 31, 2010 at 15:53 | comment | added | Philip Potter | @bananakata: the OED approves -ize, even if the British public generally do not. | |
| Aug 31, 2010 at 14:56 | history | edited | Kev | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
You don't hyphenate "correctly spelled"
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| Sep 30, 2009 at 6:08 | comment | added | bananakata | @Disgruntled - this is demonstrably not true, however a British audience will tolerate US spelling where a US audience will not tolerate British spelling, essentially a factor of US cultural and in particular software exports over the last however many years. | |
| Sep 29, 2009 at 22:54 | comment | added | DisgruntledGoat | Well both the -ise and -ize suffixes are accepted in British English. | |
| Sep 29, 2009 at 17:57 | history | edited | Shog9 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 29, 2009 at 17:52 | history | edited | Hilarious Comedy Pesto | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 29, 2009 at 17:48 | history | answered | Troggy | CC BY-SA 2.5 |