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“Digitizing” or “Digitising”

Language

Digitizing and digitising are both English terms.

Usage

Digitizing is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American (US) English (en-US) while digitising is predominantly used in 🇬🇧 British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB).

In terms of actual appearance and usage, here's a breakdown by country, with usage level out of 100 (if available):

Term US UK India Philippines Canada Australia Liberia Ireland New Zealand Jamaica Trinidad & Tobago Guyana
digitizing 100 43 81 100 100 44 0 40 0 100 0 0
digitising 0 57 19 0 0 56 0 60 100 0 0 0

  • In the United States, there is a preference for "digitizing" over "digitising" (100 to 0).
  • In the United Kingdom, there is a 57 to 43 preference for "digitising" over "digitizing".
  • In India, there is a preference for "digitizing" over "digitising" (81 to 19).
  • In the Philippines, there is a preference for "digitizing" over "digitising" (100 to 0).
  • In Canada, there is a preference for "digitizing" over "digitising" (100 to 0).
  • In Australia, there is a 56 to 44 preference for "digitising" over "digitizing".
  • In Liberia, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "digitizing" and "digitising".
  • In Ireland, there is a 60 to 40 preference for "digitising" over "digitizing".
  • In New Zealand, there is a 100 to 0 preference for "digitising" over "digitizing".
  • In Jamaica, there is a preference for "digitizing" over "digitising" (100 to 0).
  • In Trinidad & Tobago, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "digitizing" and "digitising".
  • In Guyana, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "digitizing" and "digitising".
Examples

Below, we provide some examples of when to use digitizing or digitising with sample sentences.

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Examples in Context

Examples of “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…

Examples of “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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