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The word civilizations is spelled incorrectly.

The previous post is correct, civilisations should be spelled civilizations.--Mrperdew 21:17, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Civilisations is the British spelling and acceptable here. --Aude (talk) 21:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

I somehow doubt the above comment. Google "Civilisations" and you'll see that there are hardly any hits. If it were an actual spelling of the word, I'm guessing there'd be at least two pages of hits. Someone should unprotect this page and change it.

What? hardly any hits? Google returns 20,000,000 hits when searching "Civilisation". [1] Sure, "Civilization" returns more [2] - 40 million. But, "Civilisation" is acceptable. See American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-ise_.2F_-ize --Aude (talk) 17:08, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

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