From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2d0a25a73025910f,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-06 12:30:45 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!gw1.att.com!csn!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!firth From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) Subject: Summarise Message-ID: <1995Feb6.153045.4445@sei.cmu.edu> Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews) Organization: Software Engineering Institute References: <1995Feb1.204503.1378@cs.tcd.ie> <3guv7j$l7t@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 15:30:45 EST Date: 1995-02-06T15:30:45-05:00 List-Id: In article <3guv7j$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.