London's Great Northern Hotel
On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 03:36:30 +0000, "Clive D. W. Feather"
wrote:
In message , Neil Williams
wrote:
(I realise, definitely with an S rather than a Z, that there is a US
cross-post on this thread, though)
The OED actually prefers the Z spellings, as they derive from a Greek
form with a zeta in it ("izon", IIRC). The S spellings are something
else to blame on the French.
:-)
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