For words like realise/realize, which spelling is preferred?

[Moctemma]

I use realize because my mother language is Spanish. The word translated to it is "realizar", so I prefer the version with z. (Though that isn't the best translation for it; applicable in very few cases.)

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

Use condom!

No need. Grammar protects.^^

 

[BlackStarLine]

blackstar, you filthy traitor. Your first comment on the forums and you have to do me like that? We all know that Z is the best and most objectively correct.

Pfft. Whatever. We all know you can't spell/pronounce for shit. So don't you start lecturing me on what's good or not >.>

 

[tiaf]

blackstar, you filthy traitor. Your first comment on the forums and you have to do me like that? We all know that Z is the best and most objectively correct.

Pfft. Whatever. We all know you can't spell/pronounce for shit. So don't you start lecturing me on what's good or not >.>

Take your lover's quarrel to the confession thread.

 

[Nakakure]

Isn’t pronounced the same way as realise??

@binarysoap what fire have you started

LOL,

 

[SourDaiDai]

I usual just go by what my keyboards decided for me that day. One day it's the "s", the next it's the "z".
It most likely because I switch keyboard languages often...

When writing just stick to one.

 

[lemonrei]

Z is like that one edgy kid who tries to be popular and appear everywhere but everyone secretly hates him

 

[Saileri]

As someone who originally learnt British English I usually try to keep with realise in formal text.

Kinda same. Whole life I've been taught British English, so I usually stick to it, although a lot of books and media I read are using American English usually, so I'm fine with both versions. I try to stay consistent. Personally, realise sounds better in my head.

 

[Suryae]

Don't use realize.
Don't use heard, know, or similar words unless it's your character speaking.

 

[Geek_Aflame]

I'm fine with either in the stories I read.

Because I'm writing stories set in contemporary Australia, I use British/Australian English. It adds to the style of the story, especially with the one written in first person POV. Should a story from the POV of a twenty-three Australian who has never left the country be written using American English? Properly not.

 

[Leti]

Either is fine with me as long as it stays consistent. It's not the end of the world.

 

[DDTStudios]

It depends whether you are American/Canadian or International.

 

[MajorKerina]

Oxford ruined English centuries ago. In the Middle Ages, people just spelled everything like they wanted to and like it was spoken. Then the Latin-lovers had to come and tell us "we need rules" to make English a serious-business language. Even since then, nothing makes sense because English is a big gob of wibbly-wobbly wording which just absorbs whatever it runs into and it tries to have rules which should be more like guidelines.