User:Maurreen

My name is Maurreen Skowran. I'm a business copy editor at The News & Observer, a newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. My first career was aviation support in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Editor's library -- my bookmarks:

http://www.iKeepBookmarks.com/Editor

Wikipedia pages:

International English – The following information was copied from the Village Pump.

"International English" has a number of different meanings, which is why it is a confusing term. Sometimes it includes American English and is used to mean words and phrases generally understood throughout the English-speaking world as opposed to localisms. "World English" is also sometimes used for this. Sometimes it means what is also called "Commonwealth English", a term actually not much used. Google gets only 9,530 hits for "Commonwealth English" and drops to 7,740 hits for "Commonwealth English -Wikipedia". So about 20% of the hits are to Wikipedia and mirrors which is not a good sign, especially when investigation shows a very large number of the non-Wikipedia are also Wikipedia-based or are just juxtapositions of the words in contexts such as "... British Commonwealth. English speakers ..." and so forth. When it refers to a spelling system "International English" sometimes means Oxford English spelling, using -ize and -ization, the English of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and much academic writing, the spelling used in most United Nations documents and by most international standards committees. But "International English" is also used by some for English spelling using the -ise and -isation spellings which is the more common spelling in current British English and also the spelling almost universal in Australia. This is also the spelling preferred by EU bureaucracy. "International English" is also the name of a particular proposed spelling reform. Jallan 07:54, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)