Marjana:

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:21:54PM +0000, Martin WHEELER wrote:
> Unfortunately Marc, British spelling is not as consistent as you would
> have it.
... I should have guessed it! Is there anything consistent in this country
apart from consistently being inconsistent?
> I belong to that generation which was taught to use 'organize' and
> 'organization' as the standard spelling, even though the variants with
> 's' were also in use at the time; moreover the Oxford English
OK, at least it's not wrong.
> Dictionary has always given 'organize' as the primary form, with the 's'
> form as a variant.
> (The Cambridge Dictionary will doubtless give it arsy-tarsy -- but they
> would, wouldn't they?

Is that really true? The Cambridge dictionary lists the 's' version while
the Oxford one 'z' as the primary choice? I can't believe it!

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:15:01PM +0100, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
>
Organize, and most other -ize words are recognized as valid alternative
> British spellings, and are the preferred spellings of Oxford University
> Press, amongst others. They are not Americanisms. It is true that in the
> USA, the -ise versions are not recognized.