Sabtu, 07 September 2013

Random-ise: The Quarterly Review, -ize verbs




This is part of an investigation I've been doing into the use and spelling of -ize suffix verbs and their spelling (-ize or -ise) in British English. For more details, related posts and the methods I've used, see the -ize / -ise page. For more on the spelling of -ize verbs in periodicals, see the Periodicals start page.










The Quarterly Review 1809 - 1967




The Quarterly Review was founded in 1809, to act as a counterbalance to the Whig Edinburgh Review. The founders included George Canning (later a Conservative Prime Minister), Robert Southey (later Poet Laureate) and the novelist Sir Walter Scott, and it was published by the eminent London publisher John Murray. It became one of the 19th century’s most influential journals.
Quarterly Review Org




(John Murray II) launched ... the Quarterly Review in 1809, with William Gifford as its editor. He bought the publishing business of William Miller (1769–1844), and migrated to 50 Albemarle Street. Literary London flocked to his house, and Murray became the centre of the publishing world. It was in his drawing-room that Scott and Byron first met.
Wikipedia



The Quarterly Review was revived in 2007 and appeared in print till 2011, when it went Internet only.







John Murray



The Quarterly Review apparently played an important role in launching the career of Jane Austen (although not, perhaps, in the way we would understand the expression today). For her fourth book, Emma, published at the end of 1815 Austen chose John Murray as her publisher. Austen wrote of Murray in a letter - 'he is a Rogue of course, but a civil one'. Murray also published work by Walter Scott and Lord Byron.





Searching at Google Books



The good news is that there are plenty of volumes available at Google Books, although finding them all is not as easy as you might think. For some reason it doesn't just come up with page after page of volumes. The bad news is that searching Google Books is a fairly lengthy process. In an HTML file you can search for any word containing ize, ized, izing, ization for example. But Google Books Search only finds exact whole words. Searching for criticize, for example, won't even bring up criticized.


As I can't do a general search for all -ize verbs, I've chosen ten commonly used -ize verbs and their variations, which gives us use of participles as well as standard verb forms, and in six of the ten, -ization nouns. The Google count figures are for pages with the relevant words. The actual count could be bigger. I've taken Google's figures except where I spot a French word being used, which would boost the s figures.


Google Books treats the volumes I've been looking at in one of two forms. Most out-of-copyright books are in Full View, which means you can open them up to read, download them as PDFs or in e-book format etc. All the volumes up to Volume 131 (1877) are of this type. The later volumes, however, only exist in Snippet View, where you can get search results, but you can't open up pages. Most importantly for my purposes, you can't open up the title pages with its information regarding publisher, place of publishing and printer.


There is meant to be a search facility at the Quarterly Review Archive, but I didn't find it particularly helpful. A search for 'organized', probably one of the most commonly used of the -ize verbs at the Quaterly Review, for example, comes up with one instance (compared with over a hundred in just the 24 volumes I've looked at), with none at all for 'organised'.




Observations on the treatment of -ize verbs at the QR



  • For much of the nineteenth century, there doesn't seem to have been any editorial policy regarding the use of z or s in -ize suffix verbs.


  • From the start of publication in 1809 to about 1877, there is a noticeably steady drift from z to s. Although z made a bit of a comeback in Volume 131 and especially in Volume 133, this trend continued until approximately the end of the 1870s.


  • In the 1880s and possibly 1890s, there appears to have been a definite policy in favour of z.


  • But by 1905, this seems to have been reversed, and s was used almost exclusively (at least one of the two instances in Vol 203 appears to be an advertisement.


  • By 1958, we're back with z.





Why the dramatic changes?



The answer to this is anyone's guess. Who was responsible for these decisions - writers, sub-editors, publisher or printer? I simply don't know. For much of the nineteenth century it looks like a free-for-all, although at certain times there seems to have been a deliberate policy (in one direction or the other).


I've listed the editors below (from Wikipedia), but I can't see any connections there. William Smith (Vols 122-177) seems to have presided over both extremes.


For much of its life, the Quarterly Review was printed by one firm of printers, William Clowes of Stamford Street, London, from Volume 36 in 1827 to at least Vol 219 in 1913 (although I haven't checked every volume). Before that it had been C.Roworth of Bell Yard, Temple Bar. So I don't think we can put it down to change of printer either.


Clowes was apparently a pioneer of the steam-powered printing press, and he moved into new premises in 1827, the same year he started printing the Quarterly Review.



(these premises) in Duke Street, Blackfriars, ... became the largest printing works in the world, printing a wide variety of works and employing over 500 workers directly.
Wikipedia





List of Nineteenth Century editors (from Wikipedia)












William Gifford February 1809 – December 1824 1-31
John Taylor Coleridge March 1825 – December 1825 31-33
John Gibson Lockhart March 1826 – June 1853 33-93
Whitwell Elwin September 1853 – July 1860 93-108
William Macpherson October 1860 – January 1867 108-122
William Smith April 1867 – July 1893 122-177
John Murray IV October 1893 – January 1894 177-178
Rowland Edmund Prothero April 1894 – January 1899 178-189
George Walter Prothero April 1899 – October 1900 189-192




Main table comparing -ize verbs spelt with a z and with an s.


































































































-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-izationtotal-ise-ised-ising-isationtotal
1809 Vol 1274782110341610131
1816 Vol 14173721066145
1826 Vol 3316384967123
1833 Vol 4993277556511
1836 Vol 57112511754417122
1848 Vol 8393534289272110664
1853 Vol 94728322601046102591
1869 Vol 126811192363815109
1869 Vol 1272125102646534111
1870 Vol 128931132572828133
1871 Vol 130719321502853745133
1871 Vol 131132873585213392184
1872 Vol 133265313271199215237

1874 Vol 13644231339771130157
1875 Vol 138468182980634149
1877 Vol 14312324541246136
1877 Vol 14411242601147160
1880 Vol 14923576441304116
1891 Vol 17237103103018039214
1905 Vol 20322391091060218
1907 Vol 206038872082227
1913 Vol 219042761344175
1923 Vol 240026421425107
1958 Vol 296327186017111




A comparison between two editions of Vol 33 1826




Google have two editions of the same volume, one published in London and one in Boston, Mass. There is virtually no difference between these editions - one criticise changed to criticize. The rest can probably be put down to the search process.










-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-izationtotal-ise-ised-ising-isationtotal
London16384967123
Boston14384965213




Breakdown by -ize verbs and their variations



You can check the instances at Google Books by clicking on the numbers. Up to Vol 131 this will give you a full view and you'll be able to open up the pages. Later volumes will give search results only.


Vol 1 - February & May 1809 ('London printed, reprinted New York 1810')






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise111
authorise6523
characterise8513
civilise222161
criticise23213
monopolise11
organise1314
realise621
recognise177
sympathise82
totals2747821416101




Vol 14 Oct 1815 & Jan 1816





































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise1
authorise12
characterise31
civilise1529
criticise1
legalise11
monopolise1
organise1311
recognise8122
sympathise41
totals173721014




Vol 33 Dec 1825 & March 1826 (Published in London)





































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise11
authorise27
characterise12
civilise99
criticise11
monopolise
organise82
realise22
recognise691
sympathise3111
totals16384912




Vol 33 Dec 1825 & March 1826 (Published in Boston)






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise11
authorise26
characterise12
civilise99
criticise11
monopolise
organise82
realise22
recognise510
sympathise3111
totals14384921





Vol 49 April July 1833





































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise
authorise11
characterise491
civilise14151
criticise1
monopolise2
organise32
realise241
recognise12242
sympathise111
totals9327765




Vol 57 Sep & Dec 1836






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise11
authorise31
characterise123
civilise57
criticise121
monopolise21
organise691
realise412
recognise3438
sympathise31
totals11251174171




Vol 83 June & Sept 1848






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise
authorise14111
characterise1532
civilise920123
criticise41
monopolise
organise1122022
realise5122231
recognise5113124
sympathise121
totals9353422721106




Vol 94 Dec 1853 Mar 1854






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise1
authorise31
characterise1425
civilise131411119
criticise111
monopolise
organise317315
realise11111711
recognise5714161
sympathise5
totals72832210461025




Vol 126 Jan & Apr 1869





































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise1
authorise26
characterise111
civilise1463
criticise11
monopolise
organise5711518
realise5914
recognise11254
sympathise31
totals8112363815




Vol 127 1869






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise1
authorise3
characterise113
civilise46112
criticise1
monopolise2
organise29219
realise21333
recognise1318
sympathise11621
totals21252646534




Vol 128 Jan & Apr 1870






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise
authorise71121
characterise1232
civilise10117
criticise121
monopolise11
organise1218211
realise11681
recognise1026
sympathise32
totals9312572828




Vol 130 January & April 1871





































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise111
authorise1141
characterise1
civilise87714
criticise111
monopolise
organise213712428
realise6128102
recognise71116
sympathise1111
totals7193212853745




Vol 131 Jul & Oct 1871






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise11
authorise22
characterise421
civilise4848
criticise1211
monopolise1
organise291255413
realise14214
recognise6716152
sympathise3112
totals13287352133921




Vol 133 1872






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise12
authorise8113
characterise41
civilise71531
criticise231
monopolise211
organise510311
realise3213721
recognise9172683
sympathise51
totals2653132792152




Vol 136 1874






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise111
authorise1111
characterise14
civilise810
criticise1
monopolise
organise112215219
realise116521
recognise2226332
sympathise1312
totals442339771130




Vol 138 1875






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise1
authorise61
characterise12
civilise31118113
criticise51
monopolise1
organise2411218
realise217312
recognise2110382
sympathise24
totals4682980634




Vol 143 1877






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise1
authorise33
characterise3
civilise210435
criticise251
monopolise11
organise4939
realise1422
recognise10211
sympathise2
totals1224541246





Vol 144 1877






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise1
authorise421
characterise221
civilise18225
criticise92
monopolise1
organise119116
realise455
recognise121212
sympathise41
totals1142601147




Vol 149 1880






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise1
authorise41
characterise17
civilise7134
criticise
monopolise12
organise18391
realise6912
recognise72021
sympathise7
totals2357644411




Vol 172 1891






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise
authorise29
characterise121
civilise15214
criticise21
monopolise1
organise32461322
realise131431
recognise1536213
sympathise1221
totals371031030392




Vol 203 1905






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise
authorise24
characterise55
civilise11318
criticise661
monopolise
organise325233
realise141854
recognise13362
sympathise22
totals2391091060




Vol 206 1907






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise
authorise26
characterise1121
civilise120
criticise23
monopolise1
organise9201157
realise7924
recognise15354
sympathise32
totals38872082




Vol 219 1913






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise11
authorise31
characterise142
civilise1049
criticise81
monopolise
organise4921
realise1717411
recognise18242
sympathise21
totals42761344




Vol 240 1923






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise1
authorise211
characterise11
civilise610
criticise22
monopolise2
organise3219
realise9725
recognise7237
sympathise11
totals26421425




Vol 296 1958






































Verb-ize-ise
-ize-ized-izing-ization-ise-ised-ising-isation
apologise
authorise51
characterise131
civilise1141361
criticise32
monopolise
organise312117
realise151725
recognise8184
sympathise1
totals32718601






Links




The Quarterly Review at Google Books (Full view versions)



These are the ones I've been able to find, but there are probably more.



Snippet view versions (searchable)




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