[plug] en_GB kde i18n

[John Knight]

Cheers for that, of the two emails that I've read so far(actually, Thomas 
Diehl who runs the whole i18n show made me change email to E-Mail due to 
there being an inconsistency with spelling it like e-mail, Email etc.), it 
appears that people would prefer to keep program as a way of distinguishing 
it from programme. Personally I prefer to write programme for everything as 
I have found that other european languages tend to have the same spelling, 
plus if you're new to the language, how are you going to determine the 
pronunciation of 'program'?

By our German/French language rules, the word 'program' would be pronounced 
the same way that you say 'serum' as the double m and and e validate the 
'and' sound you're looking for in the a (people quite often ask me, "well 
what about 'kilogram' etc?" but if you look in and old dictionary you'll 
find that that was spelt 'kilogramme' and always was until the Americans 
changed it).

Until I get some more feedback, I'll keep it as 'program' but I have 
included 'programme' as a valid keyword in some word searches.

Seeya then (keep giving me feedback!). :)
anarchist tomato

>
>On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:37:06PM +0800, John Knight wrote:
> > The question I have today is would you prefer to see program or 
>programme? I
> > learnt German as a child and hence 'programme' makes more sense to me 
>but
> > the majority of people aren't the same as myself in that area.
>
>I prefer 'program' for computer programs and 'programme' for any other
>programme (p... of events, concert p..., etc). From casual
>observation, I think a lot of other non-US English speakers do the
>same.
>
> > Please give me feedback on this! Also, we have changed words like
> > 'theorize' to 'theorise' due to more common usage and the fact that
> > the 's' is the original. Any objections?
>
>What I was taught about this is that -ise is preferred for words which
>came into English via French (where -ise would be the spelling), and
>-ize for those formed in English itself.  What I actually do myself is
>use -ise by preference for most things.  You may be interested to read
>Fowler's notes on this topic, if you haven't already:
>
>http://www.xrefer.com/entry/594436
>http://www.xrefer.com/entry/594421
>
>Colin
>
>

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