
7 Dec
2009
7 Dec
'09
10:47 p.m.
Christian Schladetsch wrote:
This may seem petty, but is there a specific need or demonstrable pretext for the use of Americanised 'z' over the traditional 's' in the term 'normalize'?
As a long time engineer, I have to say that I've always liked the way you could deduce something about the country of an engineer from spellings like this. I would not want to lose that charming aspect of the software engineering life by suggesting to people that they spell like I do. Patrick