Comment by Meemo16 on 06/08/2014 at 04:10 UTC*

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‘Recognize’ *is* actually a British form. It's commonly thought to be an Americanism, but it isn't one.

Edit: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/-ize

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Comment by Alex_Rose at 06/08/2014 at 14:05 UTC

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Interesting.

However, that's a novelty account that specifically takes Americanisms and posts the British version.

"Unrecognised" is not used in America, it's exclusive to British English, so correcting it to a form that's prevalent in America and not here seems completely against the point of the bot, even if it's "technically acceptable" over here.