I have to admit that I've never been a wiz with the English language. It's not logical. It has too many rules with exceptions. There are too many words that sound the same, spelled different; sound different, spelled the same; spelled the same, sound the same, different meaning.....
About a year ago I started seeing "learnt" in publications in place of "learned". That was just plain bad English to me. Learnt was the backwoods hillbilly way of saying learned - because they weren't. But now this is acceptable?
A couple of months ago I started seeing the demise of the "z". What's going on here? Words like visualization are now spelled visualisation. Capitolization is now capitolisation. All of the -zation words are now -sation. Who decided that? Did I miss the memo? My students can't spell anything or put a sentance together. Are we letting them redefine the language? Why have I put all that work and suffering into trying to get it right when the rules keep changing?
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