Re: Documenting a preference for US English?

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

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Phil Sainty wrote:
> I had grepped for "english" and then for "american" and "US" within
> those results, and didn't turn up any instructions to this end.

$ grep -ri 'american spell' $(git ls-files)
ChangeLog.2:	Rename using American spelling.  Update all uses.
doc/lispref/ChangeLog.1:	Prefer typical American spelling for "acknowledgment".
doc/misc/ChangeLog.1:	Prefer typical American spelling for "acknowledgment".
lisp/ChangeLog.16:	Prefer typical American spelling for "acknowledgment".
lisp/ChangeLog.16:	Emacs uses American spelling.
lisp/gnus/ChangeLog.3:	Use American spelling for 'normalize'

> Is there such a recommendation in the documentation that I missed,
> though?  If not, it sounds like it would be a good thing to add
> somewhere.

Sure, why not? I installed the attached.

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From 53e95d01fd8865204fdedcf30f4629d1d0634129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:38:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * CONTRIBUTE: Suggest American English.

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 CONTRIBUTE | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE
index d01ac8b..78a2d51 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTE
+++ b/CONTRIBUTE
@@ -195,7 +195,8 @@ them right the first time, so here are guidelines for formatting them:
   sentences starting with a capital and ending with a period (except
   the summary line should not end in a period).  See
   https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Comments.html
-  or run 'info "(standards)Comments"'.
+  or run 'info "(standards)Comments"'.  American English is preferred
+  in Emacs.
 
   They are preserved indefinitely, and have a reasonable chance of
   being read in the future, so it's better that they have good
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