Get shards of broken glass inserted up your arsehole or get a biro shoved down your urethra? YOU DECIDE. The 'z' is in the Oxford Dictionary as acceptable British usage and is truer to the Latin -iz- root of the suffix than the French -is- ****e. <partytime>
She certainly must have gone up in the world. Did it raise her expectations? oh **** it I`ll grab me coat.......
Look, mate, just get me my pint and stop asking these stupid questions every time I get to the bar. And?
And that is why I use it. Plus it looks way cooler than the ****ty, blunt, French version. OK, I'll get you your pint of smoothied goat foetus if you CALM THE **** DOWN.
I'm pointing out that it's as British a language feature as it is American. It's still used in 40% of British texts according to the national corpus and appears in both the Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries as acceptable usage. You can still understand it can't you?!