Comments on: Is Google Automatically “Correcting” English Spelling?

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:49:48 +0000

Yes, and sometimes it’s frustrating. The semantics are off sometimes.
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By: j e pattinson

j e pattinson — Fri, 28 May 2010 09:24:16 +0000

The Times certainly used to use the alternative spelling ‘connexion’, however these days the spelling ‘connection’ is almost universal in the UK.

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By: Andrew Nattan

Andrew Nattan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:03:33 +0000

Thanks Bob. I’ve seen lots of posts over the past 24 hours saying that things seem to have reverted. Perhaps this was a temporary glitch, and we all got worked up over nothing?

By: Bob Hazard

Bob Hazard — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:00:57 +0000

Just tried search engine optimisation and it didn’t work for me, I got a normal result. Maybe it is a browser setting?

I went to http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ and saw a language field, although ironically my user agent string says en-US:

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HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE:en-GB
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HTTP_USER_AGENT:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.298.0 Safari/532.8

By: Nick Wilsdon

Nick Wilsdon — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:48:28 +0000

@Sean Carlos

Both -ize and -ise were used in British English. One explanation given for us moving to the -ise ending was to differentiate ourselves from our US cousins. I’d guess the US went with -ize ending due to the influence of the various spelling reform movements. This is an example of language evolving with a society. The Brits no more “should” be using -ize, than the Americans “should” be using -ise.

I’ve seen American commentators suggest that either ending is acceptable in the UK as long as you are consistant. I assure you that -ize endings are considered incorrect in the UK, and also in Australia.

Regarding the current meaning of ‘gay’ meaning ‘happy’, I’m not quite sure Tom Robinson is the best evidence for your case. Maybe this is what you were looking for?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8
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By: Sean Carlos

Sean Carlos — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:54:33 +0000

While I haven’t gone directly to the source, it appears that you should be using ize in the UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-ise.2C_-ize ; that you don’t is a different issue!

@Nick Wilsdon: calling someone ‘gay’ today still means happy, depending on who is doing the calling. Ref: Tom Robinson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHG2LJGfEdw
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