Esta explicación es incorrecta:
Verbs ending in-zar in Spanish, like organizar (to organise), analizar (to analyse), cazar (to hunt) are irregular in El Pretérito Indefinido because the spelling changes for pronunciation reasons in the first person singular (yo).
De hecho, ze y ce tienen la misma pronunciación. Más bien es una regla ortográfica que la Z generalmente no va con la E ni la I.
Hola Ryland L.
Thanks for pointing this out. You're right that the spelling change is primarily due to an orthographic (spelling) rule, since z cannot be written before e or i in Spanish.
While our explanation about preserving pronunciation is a common way of describing these spelling changes, your clarification is more precise in this case. We'll update the wording in the lesson to better reflect that it's an orthographic change rather than a pronunciation-driven irregularity.
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Silvia
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