There’s nothing wrong with -ize verbs in British English; that’s the preferred form of the OED, for instance. But yes, MoR could do with a bit of Britpicking.
(I didn’t find “Fire me” jarring; it certainly would have been weird in BrE in 1991, but it isn’t in present-day BrE—not for me, anyway—and that’s what governs my wrongness-sensors.)
There’s nothing wrong with -ize verbs in British English; that’s the preferred form of the OED, for instance. But yes, MoR could do with a bit of Britpicking.
(I didn’t find “Fire me” jarring; it certainly would have been weird in BrE in 1991, but it isn’t in present-day BrE—not for me, anyway—and that’s what governs my wrongness-sensors.)