2008-07-11 - Rider Down, NW11

Not if you're American, it ain't!
Offense, defense, realize, initialize, center, theater, favorite, color, ta-MAY-toe, 'errrrrb... so there!

Oh, and just to pre-empt the people who will inevitably reply that there's an "H" in "herb"... there's an "H" in "honest" as well.

I'm not American, and this is essentially a London forum, and I don't like US realization* of English due to laziness or ignorance on the part of English English speakers.

• the use of 'z' was originally an English thing, and still preferred by the OED.