RE: the Ethnologue

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 14:02:00 EDT


Ar 09:04 -0800 2000-09-13, scríobh Ayers, Mike:
>> With English, the problem with spell checking is quite
>> different, and different
>> lists of words would not be as easy for a solution: the en-US
>> vs. en-GB
>> tagging does not seem to adequately cover the various
>> differences such as
>> -ise vs. -ize, -our vs. -or, -re vs. -er

It does not. The most common forms are:

civilize, color, center (US)
civilize, colour, centre (GB-Oxonia)
civilise, colour, centre (GB-Demotica)

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