Update - advertise is actually correct!
AndrewF
(I'm not antisocial - I've got lots of friends).
On 01/11/2005, at 3:04 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>
> Rats. We'll just have to get along then.
>
> At some point in my studies I learned that words like "sociology" were
> referred to as bastard words because they came from joining Latin and
> Greek roots. I was extending that to verbs built by adding the Greek
> -ize to nouns. There is an implicit disapproval in using a word like
> that. "Bastardize" is an example of itself, and I'll wager quite
> overwhelmed in shame.
>
> Joel W.
>
> On 10/31/05, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Bastardise.
>> It's not Greek in origin! :)
>> Seriously, advertise for instance looks quite normal to me and would
>> look very strange with a zed. (Yes, that's a joke!)
>> AndrewF
>>
>>
>> On 31/10/2005, at 10:55 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Not so much.
>>>
>>> The "ize" ending is a Greek method of making nouns into verbal
>>> forms.
>>> If you are happy transliterating the Greek zeta (from which you get
>>> your beloved "zed") as an "s," you are welcome to bastardize
>>> accordingly. Nothing to do with Latin, I don't think.
>>>
>>> You're right about the paucity of grammar threads. All this boring
>>> camera stuff...
>>>
>>> Joel W.
>>>
>>> On 10/30/05, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tsk. Standard English. If I used Oz dialect, you wouldn't
>>>> understand
>>>> much at all. It's common for North Americans to standardise the
>>>> 'ize'
>>>> ending and everyone else in the english speaking world to use 'ise'
>>>> although the real distinction is between Greek and Latin roots, I
>>>> believe.
>>>> Great - it's ages since we had a grammar stoush on the list.
>>>> AndrewF
>>>>
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