From: Anthony.Iano-Fletcher@nih.gov
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Doc fixes - US vs. British spelling
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:49:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990617084922.B25725@argo.cit.nih.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBF540FF16FD1119D9600A0C94B2B51F29E8F@napier.logica.co.uk>; from Kiddle, Oliver on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 09:45:16AM +0100
Hi
Firstly, I'd like to join with Helmut when he says....
> MANY MANY thanks to all who help improving ZSH
Secondly,
> If British spelling is generally prefered
I certainly prefer it. So much computer documentation is written in
American that Im used to it but it would be nice to have some in
British english.
> words this found were 'bitwise', 'otherwise' and 'recognise'. I haven't
> got a US dictionary so can't confirm it but I'd guess that only the
> latter would be spelt with a z in America. There are also some other
> British spellings like behaviour and favour in there.
yes, Americans spell recognise with a z. Bitwise and otherwise I think
are correct on either side of the Atlantic.
Anthony
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-17 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-17 8:45 Kiddle, Oliver
1999-06-17 11:18 ` Geoff Wing
1999-06-17 12:49 ` Anthony.Iano-Fletcher [this message]
1999-06-17 12:33 ` Peter Stephenson
1999-06-17 13:25 ` Anthony.Iano-Fletcher
1999-06-17 15:10 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-06-17 13:13 Sven Wischnowsky
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