Language Tag Comparison
The following table summarizes a few general spelling differences between the four major spelling systems. Note: en-GB simply stands for British English; it is not specified whether -ize or -ise should be used. The language tag en-GB-oed, however, requires the consistent use of -ize and -ization.
| en-GB | en-GB-oed | en-CA | en-US |
|---|---|---|---|
| analyse | analyse | analyze, analyse |
analyze |
| behaviour | behaviour | behaviour, behavior |
behavior |
| centre | centre | centre | center |
| defence | defence | defence | defense |
| globalisation, globalization |
globalization | globalization | globalization |
| realise, realize |
realize | realize | realize |
| traveller | traveller | traveller | traveler |
| catalogue | catalogue | catalogue | catalog |
| programme | programme | program, programme |
program |
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“Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men’s language. Of course women learn it. We’re not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man’s world, so it talks a man’s language.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“I believe in the flesh and the appetites,
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me
is a miracle.
Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch’d from,
The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,
This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“The difference between human vision and the image perceived by the faceted eye of an insect may be compared with the difference between a half-tone block made with the very finest screen and the corresponding picture as represented by the very coarse screening used in common newspaper pictorial reproduction. The same comparison holds good between the way Gogol saw things and the way average readers and average writers see things.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)