Advertise or advertize

0 Hello, Guest, 02br
00"advertise" is the US spelling, "advertize" the BE one. 02br
00The noun form is advertisement, short form ad. 0-

0 Isn't it the other way around? 0-

0 Advertise is "English" english. 0-

0 US English uses both spellings 0-

0 I didn't find "advertize" in the Cambridge for US English, the only alternative it gives is "advertise", so I guess the "z" spelling is Brit E. 0-

0 Advertize would not be correct in UK English. I googled advertize and it was given as an alternative to advertise in US English. 0-

0 Advertize is in the Hyperdictionary, but not in Webster; "advertise" is in both, but no mention of BE or USE. 02br
00I don't know what to think 050010id7

0 There seem to be 3 schools of thought about -ise/-ize verbs: 02br
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001. Make them all -ize, for simplicity's sake. (This seems to be commonest in AmE.) 02br
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002. Make them all -ise, for simplicity's sake. (This seems to be commonest in BrE.) 02br
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003. Make them all -ize, except for the ones that entered English from the

0 I think "advertise" should be "advertiSe" even in AmE at least formally. You will find Google's hits for "advertiSed" count to 194,000 whereas "advertiZed" only to 456, when you restrict the search into the domain of ".gov". "AdvertiSement" hit 111,000 sites, while "advertiZement" did only 26 sites. 02br
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0 "advertize" does not correctly exist in any form of English. 02br
00It is one of the few cases where, unexpectedly, not even American English uses the -ize ending. 02br
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