Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Never use 'z' when you should use 's', in some words.
Note that words like "realise", "optimise", "minimise", "marginalise", "organise", "finalise", etc. (with their nominal forms; e.g. "realisation"), all have 'se' as their last two letters, not 'ze'.
The difference is all about British English as opposed to American English.
BrE is 'se' while AmE is 'ze'.
NB: BrE is the adopted Standard for us, for two major reasons:
1. The Britons are the Native speakers of English.
2. We (Nigeria) got our independence from them.
Is that okay?
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