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From: jedhudson@cix.compulink.co.uk ("John Hudson")
Subject: Re: "-ise"/"-ize" [was Re: Automatic translation between US and UK English]
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Keith C. Ivey <kcivey@cpcug.org>       Washington, DC wtote on 9th Jan


> Anyway, according to _Words into Type_ (3rd ed., p. 472), these
> are the exceptions (you'll have to sort out which ones might
> contain the ergative morpheme on your own):
(snip)
>     demise
>     despise
>     devise

(snip)

There is also the English Devizes....but that is a town in Wiltshire.  ;-}


JEH
