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Is the spelling sanitizer or sanitiser? - Australian spelling
The main time I tend to use hand sanitiser, or is that hand sanitizer, is when I’m on a cruise before I eat.
I’ve also used it when visiting people in a hospital, or in an aged care facility. It makes sense.
However, now with COVID-19, all that has changed and now it becomes part of your regular routine.
The question then is, is the Australian spelling with the 's' or the 'z'?
A check of Google for sites ending in .au for the words sanitiser and sanitizer,
returns 1.19 million results for the 's' spelling and 464,000 for the 'z' spelling.
A check of the Australian Oxford Dictionary and the Macquarie Dictionary for the words sanitise and sanitize,
gives us sanitise with the 's' as the primary spelling and sanitize with the 'z' as the secondary spelling.
In Australia the preferred spelling uses the 's' for the word sanitiser and its various forms.
Kelvin Eldridge
www.Australian-Dictionary.com.au
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