Oxford spelling

== English == === Noun === Oxford spelling (plural Oxford spellings) English spelling as used in Oxford publications, this being mostly the usual British spelling but with the letter z used in the suffixes -ize and -ization. 1917, Bookplate Quarterly, v 1, n 1, American Bookplate Society, p 31: But the repudiation at Oxford of the Oxford spelling of thirty years ago removes the last prop from the tumbling hyphen, and now there is no reason why any one who writes about bookplates should not follow established literary usage. 1992, James L. W. West III, The Chace Act and Anglo-American Literary Relations, in Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v 45, University of Virginia Bibliographical Society, p 308: The net effect of such attitudes was to require American publishers to have some of their books typeset in a style of British orthography known as "modified Oxford spelling.” 2007, Éric Brian, Marie Jaisson, Karen George transl., The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth: A Dialogue Between Mathematics, Biology and Sociology, Springer, pp xi–xii: It was decided to adopt the “Oxford” spelling conventions preferred in most British English academic publications, conventions which are most comfortable for an international readership. === See also === Oxford comma