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American here. Does "seize" actually count? AFAIK "se" is not a word that got ize'd (as in "incentivize"). I can actually stand "televise" because the base word
by anonytrary 6y ago
American here. Does "seize" actually count? AFAIK "se" is not a word that got ize'd (as in "incentivize"). I can actually stand "televise" because the base word "television" uses an "s" after the "i". It looks weird on some randomly ize'd word, for example, if I want to make up a word for "making something more like an adventure" I'd say like "adventurize", because "adventurise" looks super weird.
- ealexhudson 6y agoI mentioned it just because it's in the article; I would never write seise but it does appear to be in the dictionary. I think British people have more issue with turning words into verbs rather than the precise spelling - eg we'd never say "to alphabetize" or "to adventurize".