In the largest fragment of the Commonwealth, the spelling of “colonise” has changed – to “colonize”. On 12 November, The Times of India took the first step towards breaking from a long tradition, with an official email instructing senior editors that all verbs ending with the British “ise” must now be changed to the American “ize”. “That’s the way forward,” says Jaideep Bose, the executive editor of the paper, which has an average daily circulation of over 3.1 million. “‘Colour’ has to be ‘color’. ‘Honour’ has to be ‘honor’. The world is moving towards American spelling. We are largely reading American books, American magazines. Indian children are taking American entrance exams. There is no good reason any more why we should stick to the British spelling.”
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