carl

Check the Oxford English Dictionary and Fowler's Modern English Usage (the section called -ise, -ize) before you criticize

Important lesson: Microsoft Word is not an authoritative source on spelling and grammar

[Edited by carl - 10/29/2002 4:32:47 PM]

MarkO

Or alternatively, look here.

dsmith

Ahh - Google - the IT consultants friend

Ever been on the phone when someone asks you a trivia question and you have to type quietly whilst stalling untill you can get google to give you the answer

Deano

[Edited by dsmith - 10/29/2002 4:40:07 PM]

Nimbus

I always thought the the "ise" is the English way, and "ize" was the American way...

MarkO

Google? That wasn't a link to google - it was a link to the english usage FAQ, a site I use frequently when pedantically arguing the toss with people about apostrophe usage, etc, etc.

dsmith

Soz Mark,

I had mistakenly assumed you'd found the link via a quick google. Didn't realise it was in your favourites under the "Pedant's Corner" section

Deano

ChrisB

LMAO at you lot!

{Was there anything wrong with that sentence?}

MarkO

Actually, that should be Pedants' Corner.

Nimbus

As much as it pains me to say it, criticize is in my Little Oxford Dictionary.

MarkO

Must be wrong, then, judging by previous performance.

Nimbus

So Carl is wrong as well then?

dsmith

As much as I hate to prolong a thread for the sake of it - Why Pedants' Corner not Pedant's Corner

I was under the impression Pedant's would be correct to describe a corner belonging to a single Pedant (i.e. you) rather than a corner belonging to mulitiple Pedants.

Of course if you share your IE favourites with other like minded pedants than I stand humbly corrected.

Deano

[Edited by dsmith - 10/29/2002 5:11:32 PM]

Nimbus

Deano,

You didn't edit your post for a spelling or grammatical error did you ?

EDIT. (like I just did)


[Edited by Nimbus - 10/29/2002 5:14:51 PM]

dsmith

Me ? Surely not

But I was forgetting it was gone 5 so Mark will have been out of the office faster than a rat up a drain pipe We'll have to wait until tomorrow morning for a repsonse

Deano

Nimbus

LOL. Unfortunately (or fortunately), I will have no Net access tomorrow, so will have to catch up on this one later in the week.

carl

Surely it must be Pedants' Corner as both Mark and I would be in it

MarkO

Exactly. Pedants' Corner is where the pedants hang out.

bros2

Surely Pedant's Corner more accurately be described as where they turn? Pedant's Rest would be the place where they hang out, I should have thought.

Bros

carl

Not really. There's not a lot of turning going on at Speakers' Corner, is there?

I'll e-mail SDB and see if we can get a new forum set up

MarkO

Another few posts and I'll best somebody posts about the pedants' CORNER in this thread.

chiark

The pedants are revolting!

Mice_Elf

No, they just smell awful.

MarkO

My dog's got no nose.....
How does he smell?

etc. ;-)

Mice_Elf

So that would be in long-hand, Mark?

MarkO

Bah. Too used to email.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Bah???
You've been reading "The Beano" again haven't you? :
Alcazar

MarkO

Of course. I find it more intellectually stimulating than the Sun or the Mirror.

Gadzooks!

TelBoy

Mark, no it isn't.

beemerboy

While your looking, is there another word for thesaurus????

BB

TelBoy

Beemerboy, that would be a "whilst" then, wouldn't it..?