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Subject: Americanised/Americanized spelling
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:49:35 +1000
From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>
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I've noted a recent wave of spelling fixes for code and documentation.  This
is a worthy cause that must not be very much fun for anyone.  I applaud!

However, some of the corrections are simply Americanising perfectly good
English.  For example, in sbin/reboot/boot_i386.8, initialisation has been
changed to initialization.

FreeBSD is an international effort.  Shouldn't the original author's English
dialect be respected?  Which language are we really writing in?

Stephen (bravely raising trivia instead of cutting code).