| From: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Documentation typos |
| Date: | 2005-10-13 18:10:25 |
| Message-ID: | 20051013181025.GA7359@winnie.fuhr.org |
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:48:11PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-13-10 at 12:17 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > I don't agree that we need to force one spelling of common words when
> > many dictionaries recognise the validity of variant spellings.
>
> There is obviously no "need" to force the use of one spelling variant or
> another. However, I think it is good style to consistently use either
> American or British English.
To give an idea of the scope of the changes I submitted, here are
counts for the words I changed and their variants:
2 behaviour 195 behavior
1 organisation 6 organization
1 recognised 35 recognized
1 recognises 4 recognizes
That's 5 changes out of 245 total occurrences.
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Michael Fuhr
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