Oxford spelling

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词形变化

Oxford spellings 复数 Oxford spellings

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n.
  1. 1.

    English spelling as used in Oxford publications, this being mostly the usual British spelling but with the letter z used in the suffixes -ize and -ization.

    But the repudiation at Oxford of the Oxford spelling of thirty years ago removes the last prop from the tumbling hyphen, and now there is no reason why any one who writes about bookplates should not follow established literary usage.

    The net effect of such attitudes was to require American publishers to have some of their books typeset in a style of British orthography known as "modified Oxford spelling.”

    It was decided to adopt the “Oxford” spelling conventions preferred in most British English academic publications, conventions which are most comfortable for an international readership.