Hi Charlene, I really had no intention of being unkind or of making fun of you, so I'm sorry that you feel that was my aim. I hope that you will continue to participate in the Forum, and look forward to reading your comments in other

Hi I didn't mean to undermine your answer. I'm sorry if I implied such a thing, but I was merely giving an example and saying that, given the actual pronunciation of most of these suffixes, I find it more logical to use -ize, since people

hmmm actually sometimes this -ize or -ise confused me damn alot!! like a confusion Of apologISE or apologIZE !!!anybody got a tip ?? If I may add something to this disccusion. I have frequently read articles written by Britons who use -ize, just

I'm a high school junior, so i'll be talking from classroom experiences.  I'm in regular english and have completed 3 years of spanish. No English is not a phonetic language.  Languages like Italian and Spanish have only one way of

I am sorry that I'm not writing to you in our beautiful mother tongue, but I want also other people to understand. Being an experienced student of English, I can tell you that what is common, is not always considered correct and the other way

Is this what you're after? Maybe be too TEFL-ey/basic for your audience (sorry if you've thought of these already) - clean up our board: after a particularly messy lesson, work with students to organise the board into a set of clear notes

( snip, ...) And what's that though? You're not really taking my point, ... a participle that parallels "damaged" but a word in itself. As Donna announced several times: she is now on vacation for a week. Sorry, I don't

I'm sorry, but how is that not sarcastically suggesting that Seinfeldshould be spelled Seinfelt? I wasn't sugeesting *anything*, sarcastically or otherwise. I was simply trying to establish the extent to which Larry would take ... it

The modern Greek pronunciation has no relevance whatever to centuries of English usage. The OED entry is for 'Euboean' and the reference to Evvoia has nothing to do with pronunciation. In that case, I'm in the middle of a perhaps

^ (= How?) Is this difference in the pronunciation to be expected? For ... then would he be able to predict the other's form? *Some* difference in pronunciation is to be expected. But which ones is completely unpredictable. While there is