From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal...
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:17:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0506090717653a3fa6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5uoeafocc7.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk>
> I'd imagine that instances of "colour" or "behaviour" are due to
> natives of Britain and other civilized places forgetting to think down
> to the standards of American English. Sometimes it's tough to make
> these compromises... ;)
Me, not being a native speaker, I tend to use color, behaviour,
center, and "-ize" endings (they're closer to Spanish; the "-ise" ones
look like a typo to my alien's eyes :). I have no preference for
"elevator" vs "lift", "subway" vs "underground"...
And of course I write "jail" unless I'm thinking of "The Ballad of
Reading Gaol"...
But anyway, the Emacs sources seem to be heavily "standardized"
towards one spelling, and I want to know if it's OK to fix a few
remaining non-standard spellings in docs. Color me OC :-)
--
/L/e/k/t/u
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-09 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <f7ccd24b05060902426f91bfc0@mail.gmail.com>
2005-06-09 14:04 ` colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal Glenn Morris
2005-06-09 14:17 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2005-06-09 15:09 ` Glenn Morris
2005-06-10 13:29 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-09 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-09 14:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-09 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-10 0:15 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-10 13:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-11 12:18 ` Richard Stallman
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