Hello John, Wednesday, December 28, 2005, 3:55:13 PM, you wrote:
> Hi Graham, > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, at 11:39:54 [GMT+0000] (which was 22:39:54 Australian > Eastern Time) you wrote: >> I have chosen British English for the spell checking, but I am still being >> told that words >> like realise should be spelt with a "z". > Can be spelt with both a "z" or "s", see http://tinyurl.com/dd522 even in > UK. > I would agree however that "s" is more usual in UK English. Yes, and that is what the dictionary is saying, that it is usually spelt with an "s" in the UK. I have never seen it knowingly spelt with a "z" in the UK, but I have seen it many times from my students and staff who have blindly accepted spelling corrections from Word, not realising it is using the US spell checker. -- Graham ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.64.01 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
