Category:Verbs spelled with -ise

This category is designed to contain, in the first instance, articles on those words listed by Hart's Rules and Burchfield's Fowler as being properly spelled with the termination -ise, rather than the -ize spelling preferred by OED (see -ise - -ize).

Hart makes the note "The ending -ise is correct when the noun has -is- as part of the stem, e.g. in the syllables -vis- (seeing), -cis- (cutting), -mis- (putting), and is also used for those nouns that do not terminate in -ism, -ization, etc."

In addition to the verbs in this list, the following nouns are always spelled with '-s-' in Present-day English:

enterprise (pronounced with final 'eyes', IPA: /aɪz/

expertise (pronounced with final 'ease', IPA: /iːz/

merchandise (pronounced with final 'eyes', IPA: /aɪz/

treatise '-is' IPA: /ɪz/ or '-iss' IPA: /ɪs/.

Burchfield also notes that "[the spelling] -ise is also compulsory in a few French loanwords that are pronounced with final '-ease', IPA: /iːz/: chemise, expertise, reprise."