From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_YSMaRJ1YAgaYo-14kb_9KnPrVHYTvbI7pOPql7SxgJIy-E0CalNSVSsE829_g>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 19:08:34 +0100
> > while "ise" is the > > French version which comes from the Latin "izare". I wonder why the > > French changed the Z to an S...? > > So no one would mistake them for Americans? (must be the > French- Canadians behind it I guess)
While that does sound like something the French would do, I suspect
they'd have had to be remarkably foresighted (by a thousand years or so)
to do that to their language while it was still in the process of
evolving from Latin.