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Oxford spelling (also Oxford English Dictionary spelling, Oxford style, or Oxford English spelling) is a spelling standard, named after its use by the Oxford University Press, that prescribes the use of British spelling in combination with the suffix -ize in words like realize and organization instead of -ise endings. Oxford spelling is used by many UK-based academic journals (for example, Nature) and many international organizations (for example, the United Nations and its agencies).[1][2][3] It is common for academic, formal, and technical writing for an international readership. In digital documents, Oxford spelling may be indicated by the IETF language tag en-GB-oxendict (or historically by en-GB-oed).[4] Oxford spelling uses the suffix ‑ize alongside ‑lyse: organization, privatize and recognizable, rather than organisation, privatise and recognisable – alongside analyse, paralyse etc. The Oxford University Press states that the belief that ‑ize is an exclusively North American var

Oxford spelling - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Spelling standard used by Oxford University Press Oxford spelling (also Oxford English Dictionary spelling , Oxford style , or Oxford English spelling ) is a British spelling standard, named after its use by the Oxford University Press . It uses the letter -z- in Greek-derived words with the suffix -ize/-ise (in words such as realize and organization ) instead of the -s- variant used by other British dictionaries and style guides. This spelling is chosen to more closely reflect the origins in the Greek suffix ‑ ί

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