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My favourite ginger is crystalized ginger.
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Interesting that you spelled that with a z! I thought the Aussie preferred variants were mostly "ise" like British... is that not so? Or perhaps we are American
izing you?
Aha. Did not know this (ignorance is limitless
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http://grammarist.com/spelling/realise-realize/
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Although realize is now regarded by many in the U.K. and Australasia as the American spelling, it is not an Americanism. In fact, the -ize spelling variant is older than -ise—realize predates the United States and Canada by nearly two centuries—and has been the preferred spelling throughout most of the word’s history in English.
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