{"id":369,"date":"2008-07-03T15:17:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T20:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2008-07-03T15:17:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T20:17:06","slug":"wize-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Wize Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

We say “fall” and the British say, “autumn.” But they changed it, not us. They used to say “fall” in England, too.<\/p>\n

I just found out that the same goes for spelling “organize” with an s instead of a z.<\/p>\n

From AskOxford.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Q: Are spellings like ‘privatize’ and ‘organize’ Americanisms?<\/em><\/p>\n

A: No, not really.<\/p>\n

When American spelling was standardized during the 19th century, the consistent use of -ize was one of the conventions that became established.<\/p>\n

However, since then<\/em>, the -ise spellings have become more popular in Britain, perhaps partly as a reaction against the American custom.<\/p>\n

Spellings such as organisation would have struck many older British writers as rather French-looking.<\/p>\n

The Oxford English Dictionary favoured -ize… and this was also the style of Encyclopaedia Britannica (even before it was American-owned) and formerly of the Times newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We say “fall” and the British say, “autumn.” But they changed it, not us. They used to say “fall” in England, too. I just found out that the same goes for spelling “organize” with an s instead of a z. From AskOxford.com: Q: Are spellings like ‘privatize’ and ‘organize’ Americanisms? A: No, not really. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languagelit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}