Digitise/digitize both sound the same and are both understood as being
the same when written down or spoken, so what is the major problem?
Languages develop or else they wither away and there will always be
periods in time where there is an overlap of spellings in use (until use
has been harmonised/harmonized(!)).
My main gripe with this string is that in a series of emailed exchanges
between Information Professionals no-one has seen fit to use the Subject
line (which is one of the few pieces of metadata available directly for
the user to complete).
Phil
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From: Archivists, conservators and records managers.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of King, James
Sent: 03 May 2007 09:59
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Subject:
However, the OED is somewhat notorious for being pretty much the last
bastion in the non-North American English-speaking world of the use of
the 'z' in '-ise/-ize' words. It doesn't even give the 's' form as an
alternative, which is pretty odd considering it's probably the majority
usage.
James King
Senior Assistant Archivist
Modern Records Centre
University of Warwick Library
Coventry CV4 7AL
Tel: +44 (0) 24 7652 4493
Fax: +44 (0) 24 7652 4211
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http://modernrecords.warwick.ac.uk/
-----Original Message-----
From: Archivists, conservators and records managers.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Boardman
Sent: 03 May 2007 09:27
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Subject:
On behalf of those of us who are concerned about the increasing tendency
to remove Z from the English language, perhaps I could point out that
'digitize' is not exclusively American. If you look at the online
edition of the Oxford English Dictionary you will find the appropriate
entry under 'digitize'.
Elizabeth (with a Z!) Boardman
Archivist
Brasenose and St. Hilda's Colleges
Oxfordshire Health Archives
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