March 2, 2008
Pamela
No ... One of the perennial [trivial] challenges of my life is keeping straight when to use New Zealand and when to use United States English. In this case I'm writing a book review about a New Zealand book for a journal published in the United States, so I have set the language of the text in Microsoft Word to U.S. English. But then I have to use New Zealand words and phrases which get marked with the dreaded red squiggle.
This is what God created copy editors for ...
(Pakeha. Or shorter)
Posted by eroberts at March 2, 2008 8:39 AM