Britain is a civilizsed place. No, you're fine with -ize. The OED prefers it, even becoming quite snobbish about -ise in places. To paraphrase, but only slightly, -ise is from the 'vulgar' new spellings modelled on the French fashion [c.1800], whereas -ize is etymologically much more acceptable. It's house style at OUP and the University of Oxford as a result, so I rarely write -ise these days. Er, apart from where -ize is not a valid spelling, of course.
Of course, as time goes on fewer and fewer Britons seem to know that -ize is correct and not just 'an Americanism'.
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zsed place.No, you're fine with -ize. The OED prefers it, even becoming quite snobbish about -ise in places. To paraphrase, but only slightly, -ise is from the 'vulgar' new spellings modelled on the French fashion [c.1800], whereas -ize is etymologically much more acceptable. It's house style at OUP and the University of Oxford as a result, so I rarely write -ise these days. Er, apart from where -ize is not a valid spelling, of course.
Of course, as time goes on fewer and fewer Britons seem to know that -ize is correct and not just 'an Americanism'.