I was wondering why I was getting so many spelling error fix requests on my documents. I was correcting everything to the American standard as we spell it 'realize' not 'realise' but no, apparently we use Oxford as standard so I get to researching and find this
'The main difference between British and Oxford spelling is that the latter uses -ize (and -ization) instead of -ise (and -isation) (organize and organization instead of organise and organisation, for instance). This use of z instead of s does not apply, however, to words ending in -yse, such as analyse, which are written with an s in both standards (but not in the American standard, in which it is written analyze). Broadly speaking, it can be said that in all other cases, the Oxford spelling standard follows the British spelling standard'
What a bunch of fucking nonsense. Yeah, we use z all the time EXCEPT for analyse? What? Fuck language.