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Oxford spelling is "bastardized", actually.
Well... could you just hold these reins while I climb down off my high horse?
Yeah, but the OED is basically the only British dictionary that thinks that way.
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Why.
-ize comes from the Greek root ‑izo, using -ise is a Fr*nch imposition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling