I think the British spelling is workshoppe, or perhaps that's American.

On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 11:05 -0400, Greg Wilson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I promise that this weekend I will update the 'bc' repo to say 
> 'workshop' everywhere, because (a) the people who care prefer the word, 
> and (b) the spelling is less contentious (unless someone in the UK tells 
> me it's "wourkshop", in which case I'll start crying).
> Cheers,
> Greg
> 
> On 2014-09-25 10:48 AM, Michael J Jackson wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > A few months ago I was corrected from "boot camp" to "bootcamp" [1] 
> > when blogging about a "boot camp". I pushed the fused update and 
> > discussion moved onto how there was a push towards "workshop" 
> > [2][3][4]. I mentioned this intent to colleagues and since then have 
> > had a number of people point out to me every time the term "bootcamp" 
> > is still used, as it is, predominantly. So what is the currently 
> > preferred term? As, for now, 'd prefer to continue with "bootcamp" for 
> > consistency's sake and a quiet life ;-)
> >
> > thanks,
> > mike
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/pull/563
> > [2] https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/pull/564
> > [3] https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/issues/240
> > [4] https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/pull/454
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Dr. Michael (Mike) Jackson         [email protected]
> > Software Architect                 Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5141
> > EPCC, The University of Edinburgh  http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk
> > Software Sustainability Institute  http://www.software.ac.uk
> >
> >
> 
> 



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