Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:49:35 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au Subject: Americanised/Americanized spelling Message-ID: <199601310449.OAA22862@orion.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).
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