Talk:New Zealand English

::Firstly, the University of Otago writing guide page lists four words that use an 'ae' spelling. They are 'aegrotat', 'gynaecology', 'orthopaedic' and 'paediatrics'. That is entirely consistent with the ''New Zealand Oxford Dictionary'' (2005), which lists each of those four words (with the 'ae' spelling) as the preferred form in NZ usage. The university webpage does not mention 'encyclopedic', 'encyclopaedic', 'encyclopedia', 'encyclopaedia' or any other form of the word. The same ''New Zealand Oxford Dictionary'' says that 'encyclopedic' and 'encyclopedia' are the preferred form in NZ usage (which contrasts with the preferred 'ae' spelling of those other four words). Secondly, it is not clear what you mean when you say that "plenty of people" consider 'encyclopedia' an incorrect form. If you meant plenty of people around the world, that would be irrelevant because we use NZ spellings in articles with strong ties to NZ. If you mean plenty of people in NZ, I assume you mean a significant minority. Even then, there is a difference between considering 'encyclopedia' (or the other spelling) to be "incorrect", as opposed to recognising that both spellings are used and are acceptable, albeit one is preferred over the other. I don't see why we wouldn't use preferred 21st-century NZ spellings, not 20th-century NZ spellings that I and others might have grown up with. [[User:Nurg|Nurg]] ([[User talk:Nurg|talk]]) 01:45, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

::Firstly, the University of Otago writing guide page lists four words that use an 'ae' spelling. They are 'aegrotat', 'gynaecology', 'orthopaedic' and 'paediatrics'. That is entirely consistent with the ''New Zealand Oxford Dictionary'' (2005), which lists each of those four words (with the 'ae' spelling) as the preferred form in NZ usage. The university webpage does not mention 'encyclopedic', 'encyclopaedic', 'encyclopedia', 'encyclopaedia' or any other form of the word. The same ''New Zealand Oxford Dictionary'' says that 'encyclopedic' and 'encyclopedia' are the preferred form in NZ usage (which contrasts with the preferred 'ae' spelling of those other four words). Secondly, it is not clear what you mean when you say that "plenty of people" consider 'encyclopedia' an incorrect form. If you meant plenty of people around the world, that would be irrelevant because we use NZ spellings in articles with strong ties to NZ. If you mean plenty of people in NZ, I assume you mean a significant minority. Even then, there is a difference between considering 'encyclopedia' (or the other spelling) to be "incorrect", as opposed to recognising that both spellings are used and are acceptable, albeit one is preferred over the other. I don't see why we wouldn't use preferred 21st-century NZ spellings, not 20th-century NZ spellings that I and others might have grown up with. [[User:Nurg|Nurg]] ([[User talk:Nurg|talk]]) 01:45, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

:::In my discipline the use of 'e' instead of 'ae' in any word would get corrected by an editor and there are other academic fields where this is the case. [[User:Traumnovelle|Traumnovelle]] ([[User talk:Traumnovelle|talk]]) 02:59, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

:::In my discipline the use of 'e' instead of 'ae' in any word would get corrected by an editor and there are other academic fields where this is the case. [[User:Traumnovelle|Traumnovelle]] ([[User talk:Traumnovelle|talk]]) 02:59, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

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