From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: colour vs. color vs. behaviour vs. behavior vs. horisontal vs. horizontal... Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:17:49 +0200 Message-ID: References: <5uoeafocc7.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: Juanma Barranquero NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118328565 21393 80.91.229.2 (9 Jun 2005 14:49:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:49:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 09 16:49:11 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgO4z-0002IM-NS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:32:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgOBv-0001GC-Np for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:39:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DgO9O-0000Bp-KM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DgO9N-0000At-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgO5T-0006tb-CX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:32:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.200] (helo=nproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DgNr6-0008Rw-Of for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:18:01 -0400 Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so11560nfe for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 07:17:49 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nKfUnMteXLMdR4pkF4oiH9bu7OYKDUQKNQhjnVlGufPwlkJknNqzs9RResMgQXHA1OXXccEWwtRp2TIFPPFph5BLdjt4wGn0OpNvuDH28bnuo82jqIQg9Igdb8BZ2sIhlxBIObEMeZAGLdHJzi/z7QuJ+uVLM6OrHqhNhzfD+So= Original-Received: by 10.48.249.11 with SMTP id w11mr12767nfh; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 07:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.250.5 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 07:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <5uoeafocc7.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38435 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38435 > 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 :-) --=20 /L/e/k/t/u