Re: Draft announcement for 8.3
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:55:03 +0000 Justin B Rye
<justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> wrote:
> Laura Arjona Reina wrote:
> > CC'ing the debian-l10n-english/debian-i18n friends, so they can
> > review and translate the 8.3 announcement:
>
> There are a couple of en-GBisms ("initialise", "honoured") in the
> otherwise consistently en-US text, but only in the quoted bugfix
> reasons, and it's not clear whether those need to be homogenised.
> Mind you, the entry for Swift has both "unauthorized" and
> "standardise"...
The Oxford English Dictionary, despite insisting on British spellings
for words such as colour and honour, recommends -ize endings rather
than the more commonly used (in the UK) -ise endings.
Both are British English, it's just that -ise is more commonly used by
the populace, myself included.
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