From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F8B9431FAF for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:02:40 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.7 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pLDgzVBH8XKd for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:02:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B222E431FAE for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:02:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by werb10 with SMTP id b10so416724wer.26 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:02:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.137.142 with SMTP id y14mr993294wei.38.1327582957454; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:02:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([109.131.116.159]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fv6sm12356972wib.8.2012.01.26.05.02.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:02:36 -0800 (PST) From: Pieter Praet To: David Bremner Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] emacs: s/buttonise/buttonize/g In-Reply-To: <87fwf46nia.fsf@zancas.localnet> References: <874nw0ltwz.fsf@praet.org> <1326389025-18877-1-git-send-email-pieter@praet.org> <87fwf46nia.fsf@zancas.localnet> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.11+132~ga81001f (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:00:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87y5suvcsm.fsf@praet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Notmuch Mail X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:02:40 -0000 On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:16:13 -0400, David Bremner wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:23:43 +0100, Pieter Praet wrote: > > "Worldwide, -ize endings prevail in scientific writing and are commonly > > used by many international organizations, such as the ISO and the > > WHO. The European Union switched from -ize to -ise some years ago in its > > English language publications, and this resulted in the coexistence of > > needs rebasing against master. > Actually, it's been superseded by: id:"1327222469-29487-1-git-send-email-pieter@praet.org" > d > > P.S. Personally think it's a bit silly, [...] Perhaps it is, but then again, spelling errors may be considered as being indicative of the quality of the project as a whole, so it wouldn't hurt to keep them to a minimum. > [...] but that might be because I'm > Canadian, and we are all about the inconsistent anglo/american > spelling. [...] Exactly! "American and Canadian spelling accepts only -ize endings in most cases, [...]" [1] :) > [...] But if the consensus is to follow the UN black helicopter > spelling police, ok :). Follow WHO? (lame pun intended...) Peace -- Pieter [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-ise.2C_-ize_.28-isation.2C_-ization.29