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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:26:05 -0500
From: "Nicholas Berry" <nikberry@med.umich.edu>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'
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>>>> M?ns Rullg?rd <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.
>
> -- 
> M?ns Rullg?rd
> 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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