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    June 30th, 2009

    By Kevin

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    The Galaxy Zoo AGN host galaxies paper is nearing the final draft stage.

    Note to self: when converting a document from British to American spelling, do not just automatically replace all instances of `ise’ with `ize!’

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  • 4 Comments

    Take a look at some of the responses we have had to this article.

    1. Graham d
      Jun 30th

      It is English spelling, you might upset the Celtic p’s and q’s over here.

      ise- as in “Internet Simplified English”
      Never intermingle; eg. chisel my nizzle

      On phonetics-eg.

      “How do you recognis(z)e speech” pronounce How do you wreck a nic(z)e beach.

      We need more zed vords that begin with z. the last letter of ze alphabet always ends up in the penultimate position of a word.

    2. zeus2007
      Jul 1st

      Ah things are never simple. Best of luck for everyone involved in the project.

    3. Jordan
      Jul 1st

      And for that, we have Noah Webster to thank:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster#Speller_and_dictionary

      It was his Speller and Dictionary that created the Americanized spellings of words like center, honor, and analyze.

      Apparently, the same spelling simplification debate is going on now (or recently) in Portuguese, according to my Brazilian friends. Can any Portuguese speakers confirm?

      Good luck on the paper, Kevin!

    4. Infinity
      Jul 1st

      Yes a tricky excercize ;)

      Good luck.

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