Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:46:55 +0000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' | From | Peter Horton <> |
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:26:05AM -0500, Nicholas Berry wrote: > >>>> M?ns Rullg?rd <mru@kth.se> 01/13/04 09:07AM >>> > >"Randal, Phil" <prandal@herefordshire.gov.uk> writes: > > >>> Fixing typos I like - occurences should be occurrences and comiled > >>> compiled - but fixing something that is correct in English because > >>> it is wrong in American? There are occasional words in Polish, > >>> Danish, French, German in the kernel. I wouldn't mind some words > >>> in English. > >> > >> I'd hazard a guess that number of non-American English speakers far > >> outnumbers the Americans, so can we stick to the Queen's English please? > > > Of the persons with some form of English as a native language, I guess > > the Americans are the majority. For the rest, it shouldn't really > > matter which variety they use. > > > > -- > > M?ns Rullg?rd > > mru@kth.se > > 69% of mother tongue English speakers live in the US (as of 1995). > If you add in Lingua Franca and bilingual users, it's a little under 55%. > But loads of New England natives use some British spellings. >
Can we not just leave the spellings alone? I have to put up with enough American spellings, so it shouldn't hurt the other way around. I know what the American spellings mean so I assume that people know what the "English" spellings mean ...
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