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Einde O'Callaghan
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:37 pm    Post subject: Re: intialise, criticise, realize .... Reply with quote
Paul Burke wrote:

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Einde O'Callaghan wrote:

But we know that in modern British English the spelling with "-ise" is
always correct even if we don't know whether "-ize" is correct -
except for "prize".


Is this another example of the peculiar facility in English for creating
distinctions between words, based on spelling differences which then
diverge in meaning? Is "prize" the same word as "price"?


Initially it was a variant, but now it has a quite different meaning -
so, no, they aren't the same word. However, the German translation of
both words is the same - "Preis" is pronounced more or less the same as
"price".

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan

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Mike Stevens
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:31 am    Post subject: Re: intialise, criticise, realize .... Reply with quote
Paul Burke wrote:

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Is this another example of the peculiar facility in English for
creating distinctions between words, based on spelling differences
which then diverge in meaning? Is "prize" the same word as "price"?

There's no short answer to that.

"Prize" and "price" are nowadays quite different words (with a common
ancestry), but the difference in spelling coincides with a difference in
pronunciation. The question becomes more intgeresting if you also include
the word "prise" which is pronounced the same as "prize" but with its own
separate meaning. All three started off pretty interchangeably (before the
development of standard orthography) but have udergone their own separate
developments.


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