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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?)

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>       Tel: +39 050 844536
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  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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