- From: in real time <sixdegrees.rising@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:24:03 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Cc: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
AMEN! Colour me agreeable... On Feb 18, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > Much as I (as a native speaker of British English) > would like "color" in CSS to be spelled "colour", > there is not a cat's chance in hell of changing it > now. But is there any deep reason (as opposed to > superficial) why "colour" could not be introduced > as a synonym ? And no, I'm not going to ask for > "fount" as a synonym for "font", so you needn't > think that this is just the thin end of the wedge :-) > > Philip TAYLOR > -------- > Ambrose Li wrote: > >> But would Google hits be meaningful at all without first filtering >> out >> all words spelt "color" that is code (whether it's program code or >> markup)? > >> It seems that most, if not all, programming languages are using the >> American spelling, so unless we filter out everything that is code, >> Google will always find the American spelling "more common". >
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