-ise or –ize?
Americans insist on -ize. Traditionally, UK usage prefers -ise, but the Oxford English Dictionary now also suggests -ize.
Indeed, you can use either as long as you do so consistently.
The -ize ending is the more globally accepted form on the web. But the following words MUST take the -ise ending:
— advertise, advise,
—chastise, clockwise, comprise, compromise,
— despise, devise, disguise,
— enterprise, excise, exercise, expertise,
— franchise, improvise, merchandise, otherwise,
— promise, revise, supervise and surprise.
Rhyming words
GAGA — slightly mad/crazy/ carried away by love or enthusiasm. He went gaga over the success of his film.
GIBBER-GABBER — gossip/nonsense. I can’t understand a word of his gibber-gabber.
HELTER-SKELTER - in disorderly....
