2006-10-26 04:11:17 · 2 answers · asked by aquintez 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
It's 'summarising'. The use of a letter 'z' in America, changing words like summarising to summarizing and realising to realizing is know as 'Bastardised English' or, simply, a spoiling of the language. Much of this was introduced in the USA by Benjamin Franklin following Independence for two reasons. One was to promote his idea that six letters in the alphabet were not necessary as people should spell phonetically, in other words write as they spoke. This gave rise to the spelling of colour into color and favour into favor. As it happened Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet didn't survive but many of the new spellings did.
2006-10-26 07:21:46 · answer #1 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Summarise Or Summarize
2016-10-02 00:13:52 · answer #2 · answered by kellan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to MS Word, type in "summarising" then go to Tools, Set Language, English (U.K)
But both seem to be acceptable
2006-10-26 04:50:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no rule. You have to look at word context and apply experience. There really is no way to predict where there is a silent letter besides knowing the word. That's why it is so difficult to learn English as a second language.
2016-03-17 09:59:46 · answer #4 · answered by Kate 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think it is summarizing
2006-10-26 04:12:48 · answer #5 · answered by srilakshmi_darshan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋