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| Jan 29, 2019 at 21:48 | comment | added | user230 | Lambie makes an important point. Also, the OED is a good resource for American English as well as British English. The dictionaries on the Oxford Dictionaries website are certainly not the OED, but they are good resources for Present Day English. | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 15:55 | comment | added | choster | @Enthusiastor Both -ise and -ize are used in British English, and which you use depends on which spelling system your organization or publication prefers. In American English, -ize is used exclusively, and -ise is a marker of foreign writing. | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 15:52 | comment | added | Enthusiastor | @choster I'm confused. To which are you referring by 'latter', -ize or Oxford? Oxford is British, no? Also a massive part of English vocabulary and maybe even other parts of linguistics (not sure) already come from French and accordingly Latin! | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 15:45 | comment | added | choster | @Enthusiastor No. -ise is Cambridge spelling, -ize is Oxford spelling. The latter is exclusively used in American spelling, however, and some Brits may see it as American and avoid it—even though -ise is French in origin, which to this American seems like the less logical association :-). | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 15:44 | vote | accept | Enthusiastor | ||
| Jan 29, 2019 at 15:42 | comment | added | Enthusiastor | @WendyG if both are British, then both should use 'ise', am I right? | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 15:16 | comment | added | Lambie | It depends on what you mean by Oxford. The OED is not the Oxford Dictionary, online. The number one dictionary in the world for English is the OED. | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 14:39 | history | migrated | from ell.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Jan 29, 2019 at 14:07 | comment | added | WendyG | @Astralbee I believe they differ in their opinion of 'ise' vs 'ize' | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 13:49 | comment | added | Astralbee | @Enthusiastor I don't believe there is much difference. With thousands of entries to compare it would be impossible to say which is "better". They both stem from the two most widely-respected universities in the UK and they are so close that they are often mentioned together, sometimes as the portmanteau "Oxbridge". But in terms of popularity the Oxford dictionary is the more popular of the two in the UK and the most widely cited. | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 13:46 | comment | added | Enthusiastor | Do you think there are any technical differences between Cambridge and Oxford? | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 13:40 | history | answered | Astralbee | CC BY-SA 4.0 |