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Rule "Oxford spelling is/iz"

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Description: Oxford spelling is/iz
Message: <pleasespellme/>Would you like to use the Oxford spelling <pleasespellme/>\1? The spelling '\1' is also correct.
Category: British English, Oxford spelling (~iz~ not ~is~) (ID: BRE_STYLE_OXFORD_SPELLING)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/ise-ize/
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • The verb 'organise' is not the Oxford spelling.
    Correction suggestion: organize
  • Who usually organises the meetings?
    Correction suggestion: organizes
  • Organised the meeting? Ha!
    Correction suggestion: Organized
  • Basic organising principles are...
    Correction suggestion: organizing
  • de-energise
    Correction suggestion: de-energize
  • De-energises
    Correction suggestion: De-energizes
  • de-energised
    Correction suggestion: de-energized
  • de-energising
    Correction suggestion: de-energizing
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • The word 'organize' is the Oxford spelling.
  • The word 'otherwise' is not a verb.
  • In tests, the words 'surprise' and 'Surprise' caused no warning, but SURPRISE and all its uppercase inflections caused a warning. This problem occurs with other verbs also. Solution: put all ~ise-only base verbs in an exception. [Keep this note for reference. Refer to the next example/comment.]
  • CAPITALISED verbs are out of scope. In tests, for all verbs, the suggestion for the capitalised verb was the ~ise spelling.
  • The rule finds verbs that are only all lowercase or initial caps. Not: ORGANise
  • All ~ise-only verbs are in an exception. As a fail-safe test, keep this list of inflections that previously caused incorrect warnings: alias [aliased], arise [arose], porpoise [aviation slang], trellis [VBZ = trellises]
  • These rare/obsolete ~ise-only verbs have no postag: annalise, bepraise, debruise, disseise, grandise, grise, hoise, marmalise, misprise, remise, re-rise, rerise, seise, sensibilise, unpromise,
  • recentralise is not found because suppress_misspelled="yes". 'Recentralize' has no pos.
  • These verbs are always ~ise: abscise, abscised, abscises, abscising, advertise, advertised, advertises, advertising, advise, advised, advises, advising, affranchise, affranchised, affranchises, affranchising, alias, aliased, aliases, aliasing, appraise, appraised, appraises, appraising, arise, arose, arises, arising, braise, braised, braises, braising, bruise, bruised, bruises, bruising, chastise, chastised, chastises, chastising, circumcise, circumcised, circumcises, circumcising, comprise, comprised, comprises, comprising, compromise, compromised, compromises, compromising, counterpoise, counterpoised, counterpoises, counterpoising, cruise, cruised, cruises, cruising, demise, demised, demises, demising, despise, despised, despises, despising, devise, devised, devises, devising, disenfranchise, disenfranchised, disenfranchises, disenfranchising, disfranchise, disfranchised, disfranchises, disfranchising, disguise, disguised, disguises, disguising, dispraise, dispraised, dispraises, dispraising, enfranchise, enfranchised, enfranchises, enfranchising, equipoise, equipoised, equipoises, equipoising, excise, excised, excises, excising, exercise, exercised, exercises, exercising, franchise, franchised, franchises, franchising, fundraise, fundraised, fundraises, fundraising, improvise, improvised, improvises, improvising, incise, incised, incises, incising, liaise, liaised, liaises, liaising, merchandise, merchandised, merchandises, merchandising, misadvise, misadvised, misadvises, misadvising, misraise, misraised, misraises, misraising, mortise, mortised, mortises, mortising, noise, noised, noises, noising, outraise, outraised, outraises, outraising, overexercise, overexercised, overexercises, overexercising, overpraise, overpraised, overpraises, overpraising, overpromise, overpromised, overpromises, overpromising, paralyse, paralysed, paralyses, paralysing, poise, poised, poises, poising, porpoise, porpoised, porpoises, porpoising, practise, practised, practises, practising, praise, praised, praises, praising, premise, premised, premises, premising, previse, prevised, previses, prevising, prise, prised, prises, prising, promise, promised, promises, promising, raise, Raise (#4744), raised, raises, raising, readvertise, readvertised, readvertises, readvertising, readvise, readvised, readvises, readvising, reappraise, reappraised, reappraises, reappraising, rearise, rearised, rearises, rearising, reprise, reprised, reprises, reprising, repromise, repromised, repromises, repromising, reraise, reraised, reraises, reraising, re-raise, re-raised, re-raises, re-raising, revise, revised, revises, revising, rise, rose, rises, rising, supervise, supervised, supervises, supervising, surmise, surmised, surmises, surmising, surprise, surprised, surprises, surprising, televise, televised, televises, televising, trellis, trellised, trellises, trellising, underpraise, underpraised, underpraises, underpraising, upraise, upraised, upraises, upraising, uprise, uprose, uprises, uprising, wise, wised, wises, wising
  • Noise
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ID: OXFORD_SPELLING_Z_NOT_S [2]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-28 22:33:06 +0200)