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    Thumbs down improvise but not improvize...

    Why is it that we can write "organise" or "organize", "stabilise" or "stabilize" according to the British or the US spelling but only "improvise" and not "improvize"?

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    Default Re: improvise but not improvize...

    Some dictionaries record it: http://www.onelook.com/?w=improvize&ls=a

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