“Digitized” or “Digitised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “digitized” and 4 prefer “digitised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	digitized	digitised	Preference
United States	99	1	“digitized”
United Kingdom	39	61	“digitised”
India	72	28	“digitized”
Philippines	100	0	“digitized”
Canada	100	0	“digitized”
Australia	24	76	“digitised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	28	72	“digitised”
New Zealand	29	71	“digitised”
Jamaica	0	0	Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago	0	0	Not enough data
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“digitized”

…noted as one with a digitized neo soul sound and style.
In modern practice, the digitized data is in the form…
Digitized 2 June 2008 by Google…
The HD1 subchannel is the digitized standard signal as required by…
…and the Shuttle, which uses digitized photography from the Shuttle for…
Digitized Copy of Heroologia Anglica: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125009486511
…from these interviews have been digitized and are being preserved by
…1907 and 1941, and now digitized by the UBC Library Digital
Digitized 1930 Plat Book of Christian…
…Nsenga (1956) Anglican liturgical material digitized by Richard Mammana and Charles

“digitised”

Military Personnel File online; digitised record at Archives New Zealand.
…up to 1954 have been digitised and can be found on…
…Civilis, Mommsen and Krueger edition; digitised
In 2009 the British Library digitised the manuscript and made it…
…by James Fittler in the digitised copy of Scotia Depicta, or…
Scott's translation (see previous); digitised
…of which have not been digitised.
Bembo has itself been digitised, first as Bembo and then…
…an online portal where the digitised documents can be viewed online.
…well known feature is the digitised collection of Australian newspapers.

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