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I forgive you for being pedantic. Just to be clear: On the whole the ‘z’ alternative has nothing whatever to do with America; The ‘z’ is etymologically correct (where used properly); The ‘s’ principally came into use by those believing it (apparently wrongly) to be correct by analogy with...

When I was taught at comprehensive school, when it was first implemented, we were taught to use the s and it was implied that using z was an Americanism. I have since learned that this is not the case and that s was used in place of z when uneducated people got confused when taught English using...

Fair enough. I wasn't picking on your spelling I just find the use of z or s interesting. Some people say using z is an Americanisation but in fact it is how it was used in old English.

So you preference the z in spelling organisation?

I always get my mucking fords wuddled.