“Digitizing” or “Digitising”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 5 prefer “digitizing” and 4 prefer “digitising”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	digitizing	digitising	Preference
United States	100	0	“digitizing”
United Kingdom	43	57	“digitising”
India	81	19	“digitizing”
Philippines	100	0	“digitizing”
Canada	100	0	“digitizing”
Australia	44	56	“digitising”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	40	60	“digitising”
New Zealand	0	100	“digitising”
Jamaica	100	0	“digitizing”
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.

“digitizing”

Digitizing is central to making digital…
Digitizing his lettering in readiness, and…
…and committed the NFB to digitizing 60% of its most popular…
…the Medical Heritage Library) for digitizing historic American medical journals received…
…as the tedious work of digitizing liturgical texts were being made,…
"Digitizing the Accounting Historians Journal: A…
She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the…
The basic process of digitizing an analog signal is a…
…other operations, but, strictly speaking, digitizing simply means the conversion of…
…(CIMS) undertook the project of digitizing both the exterior and interior…

“digitising”

…War", with the goal of digitising over 400,000 source items from…
…the Freedom Anarchist Newspaper Archives, digitising more than 1,100 back issues…
…health record system in 2010, digitising all its 450,000 patient records.
…software is used for the digitising of books.
…now in the process of digitising the material and making it…
…light weight cameras and video digitising ingestion systems based on Apple…
…K and Rafferty, L. (2009) Digitising Command and Control: Human Factors…
…its objectives in terms of digitising and increasing public accessibility to…
…Taonga the explicit responsibility of digitising the items of highest heritage…
…of his achievements was the digitising of the Ulster Covenant by…

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