EPTOn March 05 2014 20:46 Zenic wrote:
I'm one of these people who speak English as a foreign language and until now I thought "price" is British English, while "prize" is American. It gets a little confusing when you learn the British spelling in school, but read American literature and internet posts in your pastime. At some point you stop considering that there could be a different meaning. Actually your post let me believe that the word "price" doesn't even exist.
I'm one of these people who speak English as a foreign language and until now I thought "price" is British English, while "prize" is American. It gets a little confusing when you learn the British spelling in school, but read American literature and internet posts in your pastime. At some point you stop considering that there could be a different meaning. Actually your post let me believe that the word "price" doesn't even exist.
The word price exists, but it's always "prize money". Price means how much something costs. Prize is a reward for winning. Price would make zero sense in this context. So basically never "price money". You have heard those mastercard ads with the slogan priceless right? Priceless is like a mother's love, something so valuable money cannot buy it. It comes from the word price.
In American English things like organize use a "z" but its organise with an "s" in British English (although both are acceptable).
Hope this helps.
