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It’s not as clear cut as you make out. There are some specific verbs that should always take the ‘s’ in British English – for example, analyse (in American Engl
by siquick 4y ago
It’s not as clear cut as you make out. There are some specific verbs that should always take the ‘s’ in British English – for example, analyse (in American English, analyze). And then there are verbs that even in American English should always take the ‘s’, like revise and exercise.
- mjburgess 4y agoI guess its mostly just amusing that cosmopolitans who are keen to appear "at home with everyone" display the same cultural parochialism as everyone else -- namely even doubling down on historical French spelling (over historical English) simply to avoid association with the US. Similarly, of course, the scottish adopt historical englishisms; and so on, and so on. With `z` however it's a project of those who'd claim to be above such.