Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'

From: Måns Rullgård
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 09:08:15 EST


"Randal, Phil" <prandal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Fixing typos I like - occurences should be occurrences and comiled
>> compiled - but fixing something that is correct in English because
>> it is wrong in American? There are occasional words in Polish,
>> Danish, French, German in the kernel. I wouldn't mind some words
>> in English.
>
> I'd hazard a guess that number of non-American English speakers far
> outnumbers the Americans, so can we stick to the Queen's English please?

Of the persons with some form of English as a native language, I guess
the Americans are the majority. For the rest, it shouldn't really
matter which variety they use.

--
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxx

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