We're truly honoured to be a global university. We're equally proud of our British roots, so we always use British English, even if we're writing for an international audience.

This means "-ise" and never "ize"'; "-our" and not "-or"; "-re" and not "-er":

<aside> ✅ My favourite is the courgette cake – it has a very distinctive flavour.

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<aside> ✅ Everything was sterilised at the sanitising centre.

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Bothersome words and how we spell them: