On 11 October 2014 10:37:51 BST, Christian Gollwitzer <aurio...@gmx.de> wrote:
>I tend to agree that British English is the "correct" version for me, >since I'm European, though not British. > >The usage of -ise in verbs, however, is a newer attempt to set the >British English apart from the American: > > http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/03/ize-or-ise/ and > http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/ize-ise-or-yse > >Being a non-native English speaker/writer, I myself stick to the >recommendations of the Oxford dictionary. Oxford Dictionaries online is not just British English, it derives common usage from a corpus of English used around the world: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-are-the-main-differences-between-the-oed-and-odo http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/the-oxford-english-corpus Simon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
