From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Jasper Spaans <jasper@vs19.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:02:24 -0400
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On Friday 08 August 2003 13:34, Alan Cox wrote:
>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..

As I relied to Jasper privately, the chances are slim but not 
non-existant.  However I also commented that a spell checker able to 
note that there is only one or two characters difference in the words 
being compared, or only the order had been changed, would be a huge 
help in running down typo's.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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