TYPOS in Conquest's cover

[Kuciwalker]

free = three

[Tiberius]

what, tree ?

[The Viceroy]

Its amazing how many people mis-spell medieval

just do a search on Medeival on google, and you'll see what I mean.

[curtsibling]

LOL!

This thread's typo fascism level is increasing!

[statusperfect]

BTW. How could he see the typos when they were IN the cover??

[nproenca]

Originally posted by statusperfect
BTW. How could he see the typos when they were IN the cover??

I said they were ON the cover.

Oh, and btw, my cover is printed in color, or is it in colour?
It's not BWhite, that's for sure :-)

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by The Viceroy
Its amazing how many people mis-spell medieval

just do a search on Medeival on google, and you'll see what I mean.

Interestingly, misspelling most words gets you far fewer results, but often more pertinent ones.

[The Viceroy]

ha ha .. so true .. Ive seen this a few times also, however, I do like the way Google asked me if I meant "Medieval" and not Medeival ..

[jkelly]

Nproenca,

It's 'colour' in English, 'color' in American.

[Inverse Icarus]

so, it's color.

limey brits.

[Algernon Pondlife]

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer mediaeval.

Of course "color" is an English spelling that travelled to the colonies before a major French incursion influenced English in England.

To get more up to date, civilization is still the legitimate English (UK) spelling. Dictionaries recognize civilisation as an alternative, but it is only in tha last twenty years that the English have started to make the false assumption that the z is particularly American and have begun to reject it here. And it is the advent of the ubiquitous spell-checker and its deference to this misconception that has accelerated the loss of z in many English words.

I see at least one typographical error above. this medium lends itself to such. Lifeistooshort!

[The Viceroy]

Interesting .. I must confess .. I didn't know that, and had simply assumed that the American's had a 'Z' fetish ..

[Algernon Pondlife]

There is a whole range of words that can legitimately end in -ise or -ize in English. Dictionaries traditionally have given preference to -ize up to and including Chambers 21st Century (in1999! the most recent one I have referenced). This is true for the whole English speaking world with the exception of the USA where the -ize is considered manadatory. (of course, there is also a list of words for which -ise is mandatory throughout, but it is a smaller list). The -ize preference is to do with the Greek root words and endings and is therefore not arbitray.

However, English is a living language and there is a clear drift away from -ize at least in the UK, largely for the reasons I mentioned earlier. I rather hope that it will be a long time, if ever, before the -ize actually becomes obsolete, but the false perception that it is an American thing is growing rapidly and it is having a strong influence in this country.