Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:26:05 -0500 | From | "Nicholas Berry" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' |
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>>>> Måns Rullgård <mru@kth.se> 01/13/04 09:07AM >>> >"Randal, Phil" <prandal@herefordshire.gov.uk> 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@kth.se
69% of mother tongue English speakers live in the US (as of 1995). If you add in Lingua Franca and bilingual users, it's a little under 55%. But loads of New England natives use some British spellings.
Nik Berry (Queens English speaker in the US)
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