spelling [ was Re: Are there any non-technical jobs... ]

[Benj. Mako Hill]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:30:52PM -0400, Kevin Mulligan wrote:
> BTW, should words be spelled 'Americanized' or 'European'? For
> example I came across "customisation" and changed it to
> "customization".

I think that Canonical will do official information and releases using
British spelling, word choice and grammar but we can't force folks to
know or use this -- and shouldn't.

Documents are going to have one, the other, or even mixed
English. That said, I think it's not really nice to go around changing
other people's spelling when it's correct in an English. :)

When I write traffic, I routinely fix spelling mistakes but don't go
around changing British spelling in text I paste in and that are
credited to other people. The text I write I spell in US English
because it's what I know.

Regards,
Mako

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Benjamin Mako Hill
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