<p>I knew it was debatable - should have kept quiet!</p>
<p>from my phone</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On 27 Oct 2011 13:30, "Steve Doerr" <<a href="mailto:doerr.stephen@gmail.com">doerr.stephen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050">On 27/10/2011 10:57, Graham Jones wrote:<br>
> I always think of Civilization being an American spell...</font></p>
Oh, that old chestnut! No, not at all. For verbs in -ize/-ise (and hence derived nouns in -ization/-isation), -z- has long been the preferred spelling for such scholarly British publishers as the Oxford University Press - including in the great Oxford English Dictionary (published from 1888 onwards).<br>
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