... styleFORMS OF WORDSAlternative spellings: ae/e i/y -ize/-ise l/ll oe-or/-our -re/-er yze/yseSpelling rules: -c/-ck- ce/-ge -e -f >-v- -o-y > -i-, doubling of final consonant, i before eSPELLINGEDITORIAL ... and seefurther under -e.) But words with -ce and -ge varyaccording to the first vowel of the suffix.If it begins with a (as in -able, -age, -al, -an)oro (asin -ose, -ous, -osity), the word remains ... or clothedThese are now mostly complementary in their rolesrather than interchangeable. Only clothed worksnowadays as the past tense of the verb clothe:She clothed the children in home-made...