Americans also eat with knife and fork the same way our settler forefathers
(and foremothers) ate, cutting, then putting down the knife to use the fork
curved side up, or so I have read. I prefer the "European" style of plowing
through with knife and fork held all of the time.
Jay Donoghue
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: Simon Matthews <simon.d.matthews@gmail.com>
Cc: Mgs@autox.team.net LIST <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tue, Apr 13, 2010 4:05 am
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Their back!!
Morse was an arrogant miserable misogynist. 'Oxford' spelling can be
recognised by its (or is that it's ...) ize spellings although ise has been
standard English English for decades. However the Times only changed in 1990
(to the tine of 'the Times, they are a-changing'?). The American use of ize
is, like 'fall' for Autumn, older English fallen into disuse here but not
there.
PaulH.
----- Original Message ----- > The use of -ise is actually relatively recent
in English usage. I have
> a Compact Oxford English dictionary that I bought in 1975 -- it shows
> words spelled using -ize as preferable to words spelled -ise.
>
> More recently, there was an episode of Inspector Morse (the original
> series with John Thaw), in which he identified an educated writer
> through the use of -ize spellings.
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