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Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?


From: David De La Harpe Golden
Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:32:48 +0100
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Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> There a few pairs of words indeed in English in which one means exactly
> the same as the other.


The real problem with american vs. british english is the words with
the same spelling in both that are likely to be used to mean different
things...

"color" and "colour" both mean the same thing and will usually be
understood on either side of the atlantic.  "roundabout", "momentarily",
"liberal", "pound sign" etc. are the tricky ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having_different_meanings_in_British_and_American_English

Bah. I speak hiberno-english anyway.






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