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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'
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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 ...

P.
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