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In common with most British dictionaries, the OED has never included entries for names, except where the name has acquired an extended or allusive sense: wellington boot , Honiton lace , Armageddon. The names of fictional characters or beings are only included if there is evidence of extended use: Svengali , munchkin. On the other hand, the familiarity of many eponyms has concealed their origin in personal names: boycott , mackintosh.
Why does the OED spell verbs such as organize and recognize in this way? The suffix -ize comes ultimately from the Greek verb stem -izein. In both English and French, many words with this ending have been adopted usually via Latin , and many more have been invented by adding the suffix to existing words.
In modern French the verb stem has become -iser , and this may have encouraged the use of -ise in English, especially in verbs that have reached English via French. The -ise spelling of verbs is now very common in British use, and Oxford dictionaries published in the UK generally show both forms where they are in use, but give -ize first as it reflects both the origin and the pronunciation more closely, while indicating that -ise is an allowable variant.
Usage varies across the English-speaking world, so it is important to record both spellings where they exist. There are a number of verbs with only one accepted spelling — advise and capsize , for example. This is not just perverse: they have different etymologies. The important thing is that people should be consistent in the form they use in a given document.
In general, the forms shown are based on evidence available to the editors at the time the entry was prepared. If it is a first edition entry, that evidence may lie more than a century in the past, and use of the hyphen has greatly decreased over the past century. The process can often be observed in the illustrative quotations, even in an old entry such as today, which in the past was normally written with a hyphen or as two separate words.
The order of subcategories is usually intended to reflect a perceived logical order or order of significance — this order can appear somewhat arbitrary on first impression.
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