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Old October 6th 07, 12:23 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Nick Gardner Nick Gardner is offline
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Default BBC use of English

In the Radio Times for today, the synopsis for Robin Hood has ". . .
Knighton Hall is razed to the ground . . ."


Nothing wrong with that as far as I can see.


The only thing I can find wrong with that is that they have spelt 'rased'
with a 'z'.

In the last decade or so it has become more common to use the 's' instead of
the 'z' in words such as rased (both are correct) to distinguish British
English from American English, the latter always use 'z'.
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