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== Spelling ==
{{Main|Oxford spelling}}

The ''OED'' lists British headword spellings (e.g., ''labour'', ''centre'') with variants following (''labor'', ''center'', etc.). For the suffix more commonly spelt <!-- spelt: British spelling of participle --> ''-ise'' in British English, [[OUP]] policy dictates a preference for the spelling ''-ize'', e.g., ''realize'' vs. ''realise'' and ''globalization'' vs. ''globalisation''. The rationale is etymological, in that the English suffix is mainly derived from the Greek suffix ''-ιζειν'', (''-izein''), or the Latin ''-izāre''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/100447 |title=-ize, suffix |access-date=1 June 2014 |website=Oxford English Dictionary Online |url-access=subscription |archive-date=6 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106195022/http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/100447 |url-status=live}}</ref> However, ''-ze'' is also sometimes treated as an [[American English#Morphology|Americanism]] insofar as the ''-ze'' suffix has crept into words where it did not originally belong, as with ''analyse'' (British English), which is spelt ''analyze'' in American English.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/ize?view=get |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060403135949/http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/ize?view=get |archive-date=3 April 2006 |title=Verbs ending in -ize, -ise, -yze, and -yse: Oxford Dictionaries Online |publisher=Askoxford.com |access-date=3 August 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>See also ''-ise/-ize'' at [[American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization)|American and British English spelling differences]].</ref><!--Since 2006, the online OED version does not include the ''-ise'' variant spellings in the entry headwords, illustrating the editorial favouring of the ''-ize'' suffix.-->