in which i am almost ready to post a thing
Apropos of this recent thing, I'm in the last day of letting this thing bake and hope to post it this afternoon. So I'm looking to see if there are any last-minute typos or etc. that need fixing,[1] and I was this close to a wholesale change to British spelling, but I can't quite make myself do it; I can read honour and humour and so on fluently, and licence and practise without too much of a stumble, but I just can't manage -ise endings instead of -ize. Oxford says I don't have to!, that even in British English words that have the Greek root -ίζω should properly be spelled with a z, and you know OUP has all my loyalty - try to take away my Oxford comma, for example - but I'd have to go through and swap all my single and double quotation marks and put the punctuation outside them and so on, and I feel like that would be where I'd be the most likely to leave some glaring evidence that an American did this. Way more likely than in vocabulary and syntax. So maybe I'll just leave it.
[eta: 1. See, it is important to do this!, because I just found a parenthetical reference that I should have deleted because it called back to an earlier remark that I had deleted. Away with you, vestige! /zap/]
[eta: 1. See, it is important to do this!, because I just found a parenthetical reference that I should have deleted because it called back to an earlier remark that I had deleted. Away with you, vestige! /zap/]