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Originally Posted by TGS
Also true of a lot of the spellings that the British English grammar police despise - the "...ize" word ending for example is often thought of as a horrible Americanism, but many such spellings pre-date "...ise" spellings, which are thought by many Brits to be "proper".
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The Oxford English Dictionary always prefers "-ize" endings to "-ise", although in most cases both can of course be used.