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“We have three terminations that give a Hiphil power in English, ize [harmon-ize] from the”
The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
“Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise.”
“American spellings: I note with some interest that the OUP house style is to use "-ize" instead of "-ise".”
“The suffix "-ize" suggests a process named after its inventor, Mr. Floop.”
“The articles must be well written, in US English, US punctuation (with serial commas), and "ize" spelling.”
“Nothing has been invented in this movie to Hollywood-ize or sensationalize it," he emphasizes.”
The Huffington Post: Ari Melber: The Social Network: Because People Like Being Alone Together
“Portland's favorite civic-minded developers are now proposing to condo-ize San Diego City Hall.”
“Lot of talk from a person who wants to persona ize his dealings with a dictator.”
“As their website makes clear, FPI intends to re-brand and mainstream-ize neoconservatism as a “reasonable” and “moderate” — and of course “serious” — alternative to the rising tide of isolationist sentiment in American politics (the fact that no such tide of isolationist sentiment is rising in American politics is entirely beside the point.)”
“In lots of ways, Facebook is attempting to Twitter-ize themselves out of the corner that backed themselves into, after they failed to acquire Twitter.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘ize’.
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I can haz cheezeburgerisms
dis iz y u cant spelcaturday, haz, habn't, derp, derpy, kitteh, teh, cyoot, mai, baw, kai, ai and 381 more...
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outcasts
Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.
I wrote a little script that runs every day. It searches the Twitter API for tweets containing the words, "is not a word". Each (non...unfollow, suppose-ably, qirl, darkskin, haz, stoints, uglyer, boringest, fustrating, linx, yolo, excapes and 22611 more...
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Suffix
-able, ade, age, al, an, ian, ance, ant, ar, ard, arian, ary and 60 more...
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cxkang's list
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ize, registrant, captious, emetic, anathema, capacious, cumbrous, oneiric, ineffable
Tweets
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Telofy My teacher once taught me that isization (as opposed to izization) was a Cambridge thing. Apr 22, 2009
Prolagus Yes, Dimélion, we shouldn't ismize everything. And I would avoid izisms too. Apr 22, 2009
dimã©lion "on the pattern of _ism_"? Apr 22, 2009
cxkang My vote: let's not tack on _ize_ to every noun we get our hands on. We don't have to press every noun into a verb do we? No we don't. Apr 22, 2009