On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Joshua Slive wrote: > On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > > Chris Pepper wrote: > > > > > > changed 'behaviour' (British) to 'behavior' (US). > > > > Why? This is an international project, so -1 on forcing > > spelling into any particular dialect.. > > I think the point is consistency, not a particular dialect. Up here in > Canada, we go both ways. (Dean is writing in "Canadian", not "British", > by the way ;-).
Hrm. I'd have called it British spelling, but then I'm biased :-) > If we were writing a book (which we are), then we would pick one way and > stick with it, regardless of where we intended to publish the book. > > But this is a minor issue. It's not critical; personally, I've learned to put up with the mess you've made of our language :) Since both spellings look OK to me (being British), the question is whether both spellings are OK in the US? James.
