Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264311AbUAMOHG (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:07:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264313AbUAMOHG (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:07:06 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:41182 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264311AbUAMOHE (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:07:04 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:07:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: <0EBC45FCABFC95428EBFC3A51B368C9501C9C436@jessica.herefordshire.gov.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rJKVb8kIxHr91lPXjiEG3olVCkY= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 938 Lines: 18 "Randal, Phil" 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. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@kth.se - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/