Hans-Detlev Fink wrote:

> I went through all
> dictionaries my wife (she's an English teacher) owns
> (about 5). They are all British and say unisono "organize,
> optimize, ...". (E.g. "Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
> of Current English").

That is correct.

> So shouldn't it be the other way around: Z=British, S=US?

Nope.

> Forgive me being nit-picking, it's just out of curiosity.

Sorry for being a bit late replying, but Z=verbs (or everything in the
US), S=anything else in European English.In England, you say
organisation, in the US you say organization. Well, such was the way I
was taught.

I looked up my very British dictionary and they quote
both spellings without preference S or Z. Also in the text they claim
that since the dictionary originates in Britain it tends to show more
of the British English rather than other variations, yet their main
introductory text uses [Organization] rather than [Organisation], the
dictionary I'm referring to is the Collins Cobuilt which I would agree
is not the best one, but is British nethertheless.

Just my two pence worth,
Al.

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