----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Polman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 6:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] devfsd.conf


> On Monday 30 Sep 2002 2:04 pm, Biagio Lucini wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Now that 9.0 is out ...
> > >
> > > Minor spelling corrections in English version.
> > >
> > >
> > > Initialize not initialise
> > > Minimize not minimise
> > > Maximize not maximise
> >
> > Did you say English or American? :-)
> >
> > Biagio
>
> Hopefully English ...
>
> We Canadians tend to speak a little of both though!
> I have seen initialisation and initialization but not initialise (I know
it
> doesn't make sense, but ...)
> I have never seen minimise or maximise. Are these supposed to be English
or
> American spellings?

English spellings tend to use -ise, American -ize. However the Oxford
English Dictionary does allow some -ize's as an alternative.



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