Hi,

Over the last year only 17% of visitors to our site are from the US (from 
google analytics), increasing Apache Flex users are from all over the world. 
(The installer shows similar stats.)

Given that majority of our users don't use American English and would be more 
familiar with International lEnglish I have some suggestions:
- For now let make both US and British/International English acceptable. Just 
try to be consistent when making a release. [1]
- No need to go and retrofit this change to all existing content, just bare in 
mind when updating.
- Normal CTR rules apply, we really shouldn't be having discussions about this 
at release time.
- Consider that a large % of our user base know English as a second (or third) 
language, try and keep stuff simple.
- Long term we should move to international English as this is more inclusive 
and better reflects our user base.
- Can we please not go down the path of using possibly award English that is 
locale agnostic.

What do other people think?

Thanks,
Justin

1. And try and be a little forgiving, users are unlikely to confused by a word 
if it spelt unexpectedly with a ize instead of a ise or vice versa.

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