From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
Subject: Summarise
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 15:30:45 EST
Date: 1995-02-06T15:30:45-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1995Feb6.153045.4445@sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3guv7j$l7t@gnat.cs.nyu.edu
In article <3guv7j$l7t@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>The spelling with z is the only allowed one. If you need an authority
>other than me, try OED second edition, volume XVII, page 170. Interestingly
>a number of the citations use the s spelling, but it is not even listed as
>an acceptable alternative in the main heading.
No, *all* of the citations spell the word "summarise", and none spells
it in the OED form. I think this is a clear case of the OED riding
its hobby horse roughshod over best practice, and we can feel free to
tell it to get stuffed.
As for "finalise", that's not an english word at all, however spelled,
and it should be finalized with extreme prejudice.
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1995-02-06 20:30 ` Robert Firth [this message]
1995-02-07 20:00 ` Summarise Robert Dewar
1995-02-09 17:02 ` Adumbrated (was: Summarise) Norman H. Cohen
1995-02-08 19:57 ` Summarise Arthur Evans Jr
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