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"Seise" and "televise" don't look right to this UKian either. To a large extent, I think this is just a reflection of our education system being very right/wron
by ealexhudson 6y ago
"Seise" and "televise" don't look right to this UKian either. To a large extent, I think this is just a reflection of our education system being very right/wrong focussed, and these rules get put in place just to ensure there is a right and a wrong. We don't get on well with maybes.
- anonytrary 6y agoAmerican here. Does "seize" actually count? AFAIK "se" is not a word that got ize'd (as in "incentivize"). I can actually stand "televise" because the base word "television" uses an "s" after the "i". It looks weird on some randomly ize'd word, for example, if I want to make up a word for "making something more like an adventure" I'd say like "adventurize", because "adventurise" looks super weird.
- ealexhudson 6y agoI mentioned it just because it's in the article; I would never write seise but it does appear to be in the dictionary. I think British people have more issue with turning words into verbs rather than the precise spelling - eg we'd never say "to alphabetize" or "to adventurize".
- vmilner 6y agoI used to think the shot of "HMS Surprize" in the Star Trek:Enterprise(ize?) intro was some weird Americanism, but the spelling was indeed that in the 18th century, and flipped to HMS Surprise in 1796. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Surprise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Surprise