Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Spelling/Words ending with "-ise" or "-ize"

The text states that unlike the other Commonwealth countries Canada tends to use American rather than British spelling. However, given that American spelling is essentially the same as Oxford English, wouldn't it be just as, if not more, accurate to say that Canada uses Oxford English spelling? 204.225.44.110 (talk) 17:06, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Oxford spelling only differ from British spelling in the spelling of words from Greek -izein, Latin -izāre, so it's hardly appropriate to call it 'essentially American spelling. Colourize certainly demonstrates this well. 2.125.144.222 (talk) 17:26, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

prise/prize
In Australia there are two verbs: prise (to work free by leverage) and prize (to value highly). I am pretty confident this distinction also obtains in Britain, South Africa and New Zealand. I hesitate to alter the article without knowledge of American usage. Doug butler (talk) 05:25, 23 June 2020 (UTC)