Re: Documentation typos - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: Documentation typos
Date
Msg-id 20051013181025.GA7359@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Re: Documentation typos  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
Responses Re: Documentation typos  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:48:11PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-13-10 at 12:17 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > I don't agree that we need to force one spelling of common words when
> > many dictionaries recognise the validity of variant spellings.
>
> There is obviously no "need" to force the use of one spelling variant or
> another. However, I think it is good style to consistently use either
> American or British English.

To give an idea of the scope of the changes I submitted, here are
counts for the words I changed and their variants:

2 behaviour    195 behavior
1 organisation      6 organization
1 recognised     35 recognized
1 recognises      4 recognizes

That's 5 changes out of 245 total occurrences.

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Michael Fuhr

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