On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Craig Garner <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Tim Tassonis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 10/28/15 16:59, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:27:33AM -0400, Craig Garner wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Tim Tassonis <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't know that much about it.  If things should be British, then I
>>>> need
>>>> to do it all again with GB instead of US.
>>>>
>>>
>>> My understanding was that, in general, either was appropriate.  From
>>> time to time, we have had arguments about grammar.  But if US
>>> spelling is to be enforced across the books, then I will devote less
>>> time to LFS and BLFS.
>>>
>>> ĸen
>>>
>>>
>> I'd love have both spelling variants being valid, too. While I fully
>> accept American spelling, it comes as a slight insult for Europeans and
>> probably even more so for British people to have their contributions
>> "corrected" to the American spelling. Just yesterday, I talked to a British
>> journalist about that who quit his job in London because his new U.S.
>> editor started "fixing" his spelling.
>>
>> Otoh, I've no idea how significant the contributions to the book are from
>> people outside the U.S. nowadays, and I also don't know what spelling is
>> taught in the rest of the world apart from Europe.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
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>
> I think most were mispellings in either dialect.  I can always check the
> spelling and leave it as is if it is valid in either.
>
> I'm not looking to start some battle that is not worth anyone's energy.
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