On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:56:43 +0000, Ted MacNEIL wrote:

>>Utilization is the correct spelling of the noun derived from the verb to 
>>utilize.
>>In British as well as American English.
>
>
>NOT what I was taught in Canada.
>Canadian dictionaries have -ise, and, in the 1960's, did not have -ize as an 
alternative.
>
>I still get chided for spelling it 'programme'.

You should be chided for spelling "utilization" as "programme".

<g, d & r>
-- 
Tom Marchant

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