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: 103376,9f99a3f96959058c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-08 12:25:54 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!aix11.hrz.uni-oldenburg.de!uniol!zib-berlin.de!Germany.EU.net!wizard.pn.com!satisfied.elf.com!news.mathworks.com!panix!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: L'OBJET: A new journal (in French) on object technology. Date: 8 Feb 1995 08:52:47 -0500 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <3haibf$dit@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <3g66i5$bmb@vienna.eiffel.com> <3gb2bi$20o@crchh327.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1995-02-08T08:52:47-05:00 List-Id: The observation that -ise is potentially more regular than the use of -ize seems decisive to me. English abhors regularity, no wonder we have developed the -ize ending for some words and not others. An appropriate fix to an instance of boring regularity :-)