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Are you from the UK? If not, are you from the US? Do you have a particular accent?
by mrcsparker 16y ago
Are you from the UK?
If not, are you from the US?
Do you have a particular accent?
- TamDenholm 16y agoFirst word of his comment gives it away, 'Generalizations' rather than 'Generalisations' make it obvious he's American.
- shrikant 16y agoOr instead of relying on (flawed) heuristics, you could just click on his username, check out the pages mentioned in his profile, and figure out Peter Cooper is a "UK author, entrepreneur [..] digital jack of all trades based in the north of England.:
- dasil003 16y agoHe's also been known to appear on a podcast or two, thereby dispelling all doubt.
- petercooper 16y agoAn astute observation but I'm English and living in England; sorry! I write (but don't speak) US English all of the time because 90%+ of my clients are American and I spend most of my time communicating and working with Americans :-) That aside, I prefer written US English as a "standardized" form of English in any case. British English feels a little parochial nowadays with the Internet as it is. I shall put my flame-proof suit on now..
- jeza 16y agoOxford English is surely the most 'fun' because they differentiate between -ize and -ise suffixes based on the origin of the word (greek vs. latin/french IIRC). Though as far as I know, most British have standardised on the -ise suffix. In Australia we have definitely standardised on -ise, hence my own spelling. While Americans standardised on -ize. None the less, I undertook one semester of commercial law at university a while ago and had to learn Oxford spelling for the exam as it is apparently used in our legal system. This is despite the fact that the government's own style guide standardises on -ise.
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- eatmyshorts 16y agoThe Oxford English Dictionary disagrees: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/77505?redirectedFrom=generalization# http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/77505?redirectedFrom=generaliz...