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:* Why depart from the spelling of {{cl|Organizations}} to use 'organisation', which is definitely not acceptable in the US and Canada? The Haitian Times has [https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahaitiantimes.com+%22organization%22 1160 hits] for 'organization' and [https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahaitiantimes.com+%22organisation%22 19] for 'organisation', a more than equal footing, possibly due to the US occupation of [[Haiti]] from 1915-1934, or the more recent intervention from 1994-1995. (I expect Shakespeare would be surprised to be considered 'Americanocentric'.) [[User:Oculi|Oculi]] ([[User talk:Oculi|talk]]) 16:02, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
::*I don't know if you're aware, but Shakespeare died four hundred years ago! English has changed a lot since his day. ''Modern'' Commonwealth English overwhelmingly uses the 's' form. Your argument based on {{cl|Organizations}} seems to be saying we should use the 'z' spelling in all such categories, which is definitely not in the spirit of Wikipedia's non-insistence on any one variety of English. -- [[User:Necrothesp|Necrothesp]] ([[User talk:Necrothesp|talk]]) 12:25, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
:::* Use 'z' until it becomes wrong (or not considered acceptable by the RfC or Cfd audience) at the country level. I am in the UK (well to the north of Oxford); 'z' was taught as correct (greatly preferable if one wished to be thought literate) in the 1950s and no doubt this is no longer the case. [http://www.metadyne.co.uk/ize.html This] gives a good summary. Anyway, why should Haiti use 'ise' which is definitely British English, rather than 'ize', which is an accepted variety of British English, with its own template {{tl|Use British English Oxford spelling}} with 1300 transclusions, and also correct US English? [[User:Oculi|Oculi]] ([[User talk:Oculi|talk]]) 13:53, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
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