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What does "en-us" mean?
![]() OK, thank you everybody. I asked this question because maybe (I'm not sure yet) next year I'm going to study American Literature. The teacher said that we can write the exam in American or British English, but never mix. However, this year I've studied that some words ending in -ise (in BrE) are able to be transformed into -ize, and that would be correct (in BrE, of course). An example was "realize", which I have seen with "z" in BrE texts (and which I often write with "z"). I am worried because if I'm writing my exam in BrE (for instance, "colour"/"color" is a word which appears often in the text) and I write some word with "z" (not all of them, just one or two) I'd like to know if my teacher could mark those words as American words and... (well, I don't know how to say in English "bajar mi puntuación"). ![]() ![]() Thanks again. ![]() |
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Probably you could say, "lower my score". That's E-Z. ![]()
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Thank you, Perikles. Reminds me of the "cántabros", but that's another tribe.
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I think the article is exactly right.
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I prefer ..ize because it more-closely resembles the word as it is pronounced.
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Organise: 60.5% Realise: 64.0% Civilised: 57.3% Recognise: 63.3% |
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Yes, I know it, but there is a sentence which has attracted my attention:
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