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Subject:Re: US vs UK English spelling? From:"Kathi Jan Knill" <Kathi -dot- Knill -at- template -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 12 Nov 1999 13:41:34 -0500
Sorry Dora,
The word "personalize" is the US English.
Kathi Jan Knill
Senior Technical Writer
Template Software, Inc.
kathi -dot- knill -at- template -dot- com
"You can only have two things in life, reasons or results.
Reasons don't count." `` Robert Anthony
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From: Dora <sdora -at- ycommgp -dot- co -dot- jp>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: US vs UK English spelling?
: hi,
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: Not another of those US vs UK English issue...
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: My co-worker and I are having a little debate over which is which, eg.
: personalize vs personalise. i believe that 'personalize' is a UK English
: spelling which was proven wrong in the dictionary (which makes me rub my
: eyes twice. All these years, i was trained to think otherwise)
: it's not that i don't trust the almighty dictionary but i need some
: assurance from you big guys out there..) thanks in advance.
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: Dora
: Technical Writer
: Tokyo, Japan
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