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Is "memorise" or "memorize" used more often around the world?

Curious which is more popular, memorise or memorize.

Kris
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    This is answered in general at What is the difference between summarizes and summarises? and hardly merits a separate answer. Otherwise, this could go on for a long time. – Edwin Ashworth Apr 02 '15 at 08:32
  • @EdwinAshworth: I followed suit, but then I saw that your citation itself was closed as a dupe of this one. – Robusto Apr 02 '15 at 09:04
  • @Robusto I usually cite the one with the answer I consider most appropriate when this happens, not necessarily the earliest. – Edwin Ashworth Apr 02 '15 at 09:10
  • Checking the earlier threads, once again I find that at least one informed response has NOT been given, yet the question is dismissed as "previously answered".János, in my official job, ("kulturni producent" in the EU art world), I have noticed over years of translating, proofreading, reading and writing official, academic and art-world texts in what you might call "Continental European English" that many of these alleged distinctions between British and American spellings are dubious. The teaching of English spelling and language in European countries is quite a political farce. – bobro Apr 02 '15 at 10:15
  • The character limit of these responses prevents me from continuing- but the thread is being closed anyway. So...just a word to the wise. – bobro Apr 02 '15 at 10:17
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    The use of memorize wit a "z" seems to be growing even in BrE writing post 1900. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=memorize%2Cmemorise&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=18&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmemorize%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cmemorise%3B%2Cc0 – Kris Apr 02 '15 at 11:16
  • @Kris - Yay! (A light at the end of a very long tunnel.) – Oldbag Apr 02 '15 at 11:51

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