<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> e.g. the new TsAGE engine defines a class "Serialiser" which is a subclass from Common::Serializer.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Consistency first, that's what matters. AE is decided upon, so AE it is.</div><div><br></div><div>Incidentally, -ize vs -ise isn't actually an Americanism, according to the OED. Both are correct in British English (and the OED lists them under -ize).</div>
<div><a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/page/spellingizeiseyse?view=uk">http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/page/spellingizeiseyse?view=uk</a></div><div>I always spell things -ize (and when people call me a yank or similar, I point them to that page ;-).</div>
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