Finishing that paper II

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!’

Online citizen science projects. The Zooniverse is doing real science online,.

Graham d says : June 30, 2009 at 9:54 pm
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.

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zeus2007 says : July 1, 2009 at 1:45 am
Ah things are never simple. Best of luck for everyone involved in the project.

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Jordan says : July 1, 2009 at 3:10 am
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!

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Infinity says : July 1, 2009 at 9:49 am
Yes a tricky excercize 😉

Good luck.

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