Talk:apologize

apologize
Apologize is an alternate form of Apologise. Not the other way around.
 * They're alternative forms of each other. Neither is more correct than the other, though the spelling with z is closer to the Greek original . —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:55, 15 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, both spellings have been in use for over 400 years. The Greek  could be a reason for using the s form.    D b f  i  r  s   22:02, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, no; the earliest -ize words (such as ) came to English through the intermediaries of Latin and French, so a Greek middle infinitive is unlikely to have had any influence. I'm pretty sure the -ise variant was taken over from French while the -ize variant came straight from Latin . —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 22:20, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the correction, and I agree with your view of the derivation, but why, then, do we have this insistence on going back to Greek forms?   D b f  i  r  s   20:29, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Who knows? I could equally ask why we have this insistence on using French spellings. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:33, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

pronunciation
In the 1958 film Vertigo, Scottie Ferguson pronounces apologize with a /ɡ/. (About 56 minutes in, standing outside his apartment building.) &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 21:34, 4 April 2021 (UTC)