Re: ACTION-103 Follow up on the about: scheme Registration

Ironically, many English people think that -ize is an Americanism, but it's also 
the traditional English form, and, with a very few exceptions, is the preferred 
form according to the Oxford English dictionary.  Go figure :)

#g
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Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten wrote:
>> A quick diff suggests this is the same as what had been up in github, 
>> with
>>   - s/recognize/recognise/

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> We should be consistent with the use of en-GB or en-US spellings. 
> Normally, I would prefer to use en-GB, but in this case, since we have 
> to deal with references to sections in RFC 3986 for "... Normalization", 
> which uses the US spellings, and various other refernces that should use 
> US spellings, it's easier and more consistent to use en-US for 
> everything, than to carefully use en-GB for most things while leaving 
> en-US where necessary.

Received on Sunday, 14 February 2010 11:04:48 UTC