Some might even argue that 'Z' is creeping back into how we spell some words db. I have a dictionary from around 1920 where words such as realise are spelt with a 'Z'. Beauty of our language is its richness and the fact that unlike some European languages it is a Living one. The French for example have a whole bureau devoted to trying to keep it static and pure.
I've picked up somewhere along the line that, in order to protect the French language from being weakened by an unnecessary infiltration of English words, people who are employed in French ministries and other civil service posts who use an English word in their communications when a French equivalent exists are actually FINED.
I’m sorry Cadeau but I can’t grasp why an Englishman would pronounce ‘vize’ as ‘viss-ee’. Surely any attempt would be strongly influenced by the English words “size”, ”prize” or indeed “colonize”, “galvanize” and “realize”. There are tens of thousands of words in English which end in a silent “e”; why, when saying the word “vize” would the Englishman sound the final “e”?
