Oxford spelling

Oxford spelling
English spelling as practiced by publications, this being the usual British spelling but with the letter z used in the suffixes and .

He was entered at Queens College, Oxford; but he had not been many months there, when some of his Latin verses fell by accident into the hands of Dr. Lancaster, Dean of Magdalene College.,


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