On 07/01/2016 08:47, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2016\01\07 08:42, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:25:24 on Thu, 7 Jan
2016, Someone Somewhere remarked:
There's a USA-ian meme along the lines of "I can't imagine how bad
something is". But they don't mean they are incapable of imagining
it,
rather it's almost "I can't imagine (as in realistically foresee)
such a
bad thing happening within my locality".

checks locality

Nope, still not in the USA...

In other news, some USA-isms travel to the UK. Didn't they teach you
that in Globalization 101?

My seat of education predates the USA so neither spells Globalisation
with a Zee nor offers "101" courses as an introduction to the subject
area....

But the good news is you spotted those two USA-isms (which have
travelled to the UK) and know what they mean.

Even if he did spell Zed wrong!

Isn't that ironic, don't you think?

Anyway, if I was spelling it for an American (which I would be with
globalization) then I would spell it with a zee. If I was talking about
the African striped quadroped of the equus genus to a resident of these
fair isles I would spell it with a zed.

In message , Roland Perry
wrote:
My seat of education predates the USA so neither spells Globalisation
with a Zee nor offers "101" courses as an introduction to the subject
area....
But the good news is you spotted those two USA-isms (which have
travelled to the UK) and know what they mean.

Spelling with a Z isn't a USA-ism, it's the OED's preferred spelling for
most such forms. Spelling them with an S is a Frenchism that crept into
English post-1776.

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On 2016\01\07 12:15, Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In message , Roland Perry
wrote:
My seat of education predates the USA so neither spells Globalisation
with a Zee nor offers "101" courses as an introduction to the subject
area....
But the good news is you spotted those two USA-isms (which have
travelled to the UK) and know what they mean.

Spelling with a Z isn't a USA-ism, it's the OED's preferred spelling for
most such forms. Spelling them with an S is a Frenchism that crept into
English post-1776.

That'z my New Year'z Rezolution zettled!

In message , at 12:15:48 on Thu, 7
Jan 2016, Clive D. W. Feather remarked:

My seat of education predates the USA so neither spells Globalisation
with a Zee nor offers "101" courses as an introduction to the subject
area....
But the good news is you spotted those two USA-isms (which have
travelled to the UK) and know what they mean.

Spelling with a Z isn't a USA-ism, it's the OED's preferred spelling
for most such forms. Spelling them with an S is a Frenchism that crept
into English post-1776.

Whether the OED prefers it or not, the "s" is the usual English spelling
these days, and "z" sticks out a bit.
--
Roland Perry