re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

(btw: why “ise” in “advertise” and “ize” in “organize”? I had a German client ask me that once…)

I can only guess that -ize is still a productive ending but “advertise” had its spelling fossilized earlier? American spelling would try to spread the “z” back to the dividing line where it became a grammatical element, but they might be wrong about its exact timing.