13 Feb
2008
13 Feb
'08
7:56 p.m.
Concerning "parametrized" vs "parameterized" On 12 Feb 2008, at 11:21 pm, Wolfgang Jeltsch asked:
What spelling is more common?
Strictly speaking, there is no such word in English as "parametrized". There is no general morphological rule "Xer => Xrized" in English. The only spelling accepted by the OED is "parameterized", which annoys me because I prefer the -ise- spelling. Amusingly, one of the quotations in the www.oed.com entry for "parameterized" actually spells it "parametrized"; I don't know whether the source had it that way or whether the data entry error was at the OED.