Re: USAGE: -i/yse vs -i/yze in England (and what the heck,NZ too).

"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> Some of them stuck; others didn't.
In fact, most of the ones that stuck were already in common use.
Americans were already writing "color" and "center" and "-ize".  Webster
merely gave those spellings legitimacy, and people ignored the changes
(like "groop" or "frend") that they weren't already writing.

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