Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jasper Spaans <jasper@vs19.net>
Cc: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>,
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On Gwe, 2003-08-08 at 18:03, Jasper Spaans wrote:
> > What about the scenario where both spellings are used in  a header 
> > someplace that winds up being a systemwide reference?  I don't know 
> > that it has been, but such a 'correction' has the potential to take 
> > us back to square one and 1993.  I have had recurring daytime 
> > nightmares of such possibilities since this subject came up the first 
> > time a week or so ago.
> 
> Wow. My FUD-o-meter just went berserk.

Well we expose both Color and Colour in various application level
interfaces. As far as I am concerned English<->English changes are just
noise. Fixing real typos can be a big help especially to non first
language speakers who are wondering just wtf that word is..

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