American Writing in Australia

Culture Shift and Writing Challenges – An American in Australia

Creating and editing my posts over the past few weeks has been a challenge because, as an American living in Australia for the past nine years, I’ve switched the ‘z’ to ‘s’ in my visual representation of language.

So, I’m having to reverse engineer my spelling:

realise = realize                                                                                                                  theorise = theorize
memorise = memorize, etc…

If you find the z/s issue in any of my posts, please chuckle with me…and leave a comment.

Write On!

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