>And, having just checked, the difference between "ize" and "ise" is that
>the "ize" spelling is derived from the Greek "izein" while "ise" is the
>French version which comes from the Latin "izare".
Latin doesn't use Z so they wouldn't have an "izare" form. The closest is the post classical transformation of t (as in Latin and Gratis) to z (as in Lazio and Grazie).
--Peter Metcalfe
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