"Recognised"?

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I am insulted by this nonsense. Change it back.

[Loony BoB]

There's a good dildo. :) Go clout!

[crono_logical]

I didn't "break" it, and I see nothing to fix :D


EDIT: I was wrong, it said "Recoginsed" previously before I changed it :p

[Del Murder]

What country is the owner of this website from again?

[Big D]

I'm not entirely certain, but I *think* it's that country where no-one knows how to spell anything correctly...:p

Nah, I don't mind. I'm not actually seeing 'recognised' anywhere; RMs are 'recognized' as far as I can see.

[Dr Unne]

No, you're mistaken, he's from the US.

[Del Murder]

If the US is wrong baby I don't want to be right.

[Big D]

I ain't honored by aluminum, y'all.

[crono_logical]

Maybe I'll add another option in the user CP for people to choose if they see recognised or recognized, internationalisation is good after all :p

[Spuuky]

Please stop degrading my language by pretending "ain't" and "y'all" are correct English even sarcastically.

Also, please stop degrading my language by removing the Z from all words in which it belongs. It is one of the best letters in the alphabet, and doesn't get nearly enough respect from you.

[Big D]

Maybe I'll add another option in the user CP for people to choose if they see recognised or recognized, internationalisation is good after all :pGood idea. That way, those of us who prefer correct spelling can be comforted by "recognised" members, while our transatlantic cohorts can revel in the glory of the "recognized".;)

[Spuuky]

It amuses me how often you use "correct" to mean "incorrect." I will never understand that dialectic difference.

[crono_logical]

Maybe I ain't gonna bother, I think Unne's doin stuff in the admin CP right now (BAD ABOVE THE POST POSTBITS), so it's best I not get in his way, plus I think I'm prolly turning into Aaron by doing too many custom user options like this :p

[Erdrick Holmes]

I don't get it! :megaman:

[Big D]

It's a traditional source of friendly rivallry and amusement. Amercian English has quite a lot of different spellings to the English used in the rest of the world; this is mainly due to a linguistic "purge" a couple of centuries ago where all kinds of surplus letters were removed from American spelling. Hence, "honour" and "harbour" became "honor" and "harbor", "Pittsborough" and "Marlborough" became "Pittsburgh" and "Marlboro", and so forth. There are other differences, too - "amuminium" (pronounced "ell-yoo-minny-um") is known in the US as "aluminum" (ell-oo-min-um).

There are people on both sides who enjoy a bit of lighthearted mockery now and then. Well, I assume we're all being lighthearted, but you can never tell with some people...

[Dr Unne]

If there's even an OPTION to replace a single z with a single s, I swear I'll ban you all and delete the MB and go find the server and smash it with a hammer.

[Yamaneko]

Cool, Unne's coming to California.

[crono_logical]

Isn't that the nutter state? :p

[Spuuky]

Yes. Light-hearted.

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[Kirobaito]

What the hell? Y'all foreigners don't know jack. The word is 'recognized.' I say we take a poll, and see what people would rather have.

[Big D]

It'd probably be fairly easy to implement two language options:

US English: Complete with 'color', 'recognized' and 'exclamation point'

Commenwealth/other non-US nation English: Where words are spelled in the way that is traditional in those English-speaking-but-not-American countries.

[eestlinc]

I was going to complain about this but I figured others would fight my battles for me.

[Loony BoB]

These threads never fail to amuse me. Oh, wait. Amuze me? I'll sit over there on the fence - wait, fense - with eestlinc and watch.

[Big D]

xD

Close inspection of the almighty Oxford English Dictionary has turned up an interesting tidbit - it lists "recognize" as one common spelling, with "recognise" as an alternative. There's no national or regional distinction, they're just interchangeable alternatives. It's a matter of personal preferrence.

However, 'colour', 'aluminium', 'honour', 'armour', 'manoeuvre' and the like are definitely preferrable, at least for me.

[eestlinc]

do you say agonise? agonize is much better.

[Strider]

Hold on, hold on. . . manoeuverioureorere? Aluminiumiumuim? Recognize with an "S"?

This all makes my head hurt. Let's just leave things as they are, because aren't there bigger things in this world to worry about?

Come on now, people, it's just one letter.

[Loony BoB]

Hold on, hold on. . . manoeuverioureorere? Aluminiumiumuim? Recognize with an "S"?

This all makes my head hurt. Let's just leave things as they are, because aren't there bigger things in this world to worry about?

Come on now, people, it's just one letter.
Oh dear God please don't tell me you actually say aluminum instead of aluminium.

[Spuuky]

You mean just like every self-respecting student of science? I can find you plenty of official periodic tables on which aluminum is spelled correctly.

[Loony BoB]

So now American is not just a new way of spelling, but it's a new language, too. I didn't realise you guys actually changed the way words are said (accents aside).

[Heath]

Nor did I. I knew about "sulfur" and "sulphur" (the latter being Commonwealth English) but I didn't think there was a difference at all for aluminium

[crono_logical]

Whenever I used to write aluminium, it'd turn into an a followed by a very long zigzag because of all the alternating up/down strokes for the rest of the word :p

[eestlinc]

sulphur is spelled with two u's regardless, but aluminium is just plain wrong. I can never move to England.

[Mikztsu]

Damn third world countries!

[crono_logical]

I believe in international papers though, the compromise is aluminium and sulfur, though I'll have to check on that one :p Aluminium sounds nicer as 5 syllables anyway, 4 sounds awkward :p

[Loony BoB]

I don't know why they changed it, actually. It's not like they say sodum or podum etc.

[Citizen Bleys]

I spell colour and harbour and honour correctly most of the time. I pronounce "Lieutenant" LEF-tenant, not LOO-tenant. I even use the Metric system. In this case, however, I have to agree with the Yanks. "Recognised" looks really frelling dumb.

[Peegee]

So is "Citizen Bleys" just a Canadian way to spell Citizen BleyZ?

[Kirobaito]

I don't know why they changed it, actually. It's not like they say sodum or podum etc.

I have never used the word sodium or podium, so I wouldn't know. I say 'salt' and 'stand'.

[Doomgaze]

...LEF-tenant? Are you on crack?

Lieu. It's a french word. Lieu Tenant. Place Holder. There's no goddamn F there.

[Spuuky]

Pronounced with an F, it is specifically a particular rank in the British or Canadian navy. Used in ANY other context, it is not "British" to pronounce it with an F, it is strictly wrong.

[Heath]

sulphur is spelled with two u's regardless, but aluminium is just plain wrong. I can never move to England.
I'm an idiot sometimes *edits*

[Big D]

Lef-tenant is a British rank, lieu-tenant is an American rank. Each is correct when used in their own context, but not otherwise. It'd be wrong to call a US General a "Field Marshall", so it'd be wrong to call a British Lieutenant a "loo-tenant".

As for "recognise" and "recognize", both are correct, they're interchangeable - there isn't even a "national difference" between the two; one isn't exclusively American or British.

"Aluminium" is far more consistent than "aluminum", since few or no other elements have "-um" endings, although many end with "-ium".

"Sulfur" is more practical and straightforward than "sulphur", but only because chemistry is becoming an 'international language' and 'ph=f' would be rather confusing for those who aren't native speakers of English.