Morse was an arrogant miserable misogynist. 'Oxford' spelling can be
recognised by its (or is that it's ...) ize spellings although ise has been
standard English English for decades. However the Times only changed in
1990 (to the tine of 'the Times, they are a-changing'?). The American use
of ize is, like 'fall' for Autumn, older English fallen into disuse here but
not there.
PaulH.
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> The use of -ise is actually relatively recent in English usage. I have
> a Compact Oxford English dictionary that I bought in 1975 -- it shows
> words spelled using -ize as preferable to words spelled -ise.
>
> More recently, there was an episode of Inspector Morse (the original
> series with John Thaw), in which he identified an educated writer
> through the use of -ize spellings.
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