From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Doc fixes - US vs. British spelling
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:33:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9906171233.AA33604@ibmth.df.unipi.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Anthony.Iano-Fletcher@nih.gov"'s message of "Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:49:22 DFT." <19990617084922.B25725@argo.cit.nih.gov>
Anthony.Iano-Fletcher@nih.gov wrote:
> > 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.
Wize guy, eh?
If you want a decision, then we'd better stick with `-ize' (apart from
-wise, of course). Many of the changes were necesssary because I spelled
it the other way (I can't rememember how Sven does). The authorities agree
that -ize has a perfectly good pedigree on both sides of the Atlantic,
although other oceans may be a different matter.
On the other hand, I'm not sure I can bring myself to face `honor' and
`color'. Luckily, they don't occour, err, occur; we'd better keep it that
way to avoid an incident.
(Gibt's Freiwilligen fuer eine deutsche Fassung??? Auch Plattdeutsch?)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-17 13:02 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
1999-06-17 12:33 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
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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