std.signal : voting has begun

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 10:42 +0200, Rory McGuire wrote:
[…]
> I vote: British English sentence construction with either American English
> or British English spelling.

Could always get the best of both worlds and avoid spelling bikeshedding
by using OED preferred.

[…]
> P.S. I think Programming English is pretty much American English. For
> example is there any API that contains the English word Colour?

Interestingly, or not, USA English spelling is predominently 17th
century English English. UK English was "re-Frenchified" in the early
18th century when all the us were added. So one could say that Color is
old-fashioned spelling and Colour is more modern spelling. With the
corollary that Americans haven't updated their dictionaries properly
since 1800 :-)

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