Spelling

Connor Imes rocket2dmn at ubuntu.com
Fri Jul 23 03:00:37 UTC 2010


Phil,

The standard is to use American English in all Ubuntu documents written
in English (obviously excluding other English translations).  Have a
look at [1].

[1]
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/StyleGuide/SpellingPunctuationGrammar

Cheers,
-Connor

On 07/22/2010 10:41 PM, Phillip Whiteside wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well, i guess it had to come up sooner or later.
>
> Are we allowed to spell words in English on the documents and Wiki areas?
>
> In the dock is English spelling of colour, customise etc.
>
> In my case for the acceptance of what is rudely called en-us remind
> our american cousins of
>
> http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljokeindependence.htm
>
> I hope you enjoy. But, it is a subject that needs to be addressed,
> before I receive a cheque for ensuing checks have been carried out.
>
> When I write documents / wiki pages am I allowed to use English?
>
> << lights blue touch paper, retires to safe distance
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.





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