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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: "queueing"
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Eitan Adler wrote:
>
>> On 26 October 2012 18:27, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>>> 
>>>> What dictionaries are you checking?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, 
>>> 1986,
>>> and dictionary.com.
>> 
>> These are American dictionaries.
>
> As is my Oxford American Dictionary (just got home), in which "queueing" also 
> appears.
> Nonetheless, we do not force American or British English in our documents, 
> and allow either form intermingled.

Not exactly.  The FDP at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style.html 
says:

   Use American English Spelling

   There are several variants of English, with different spellings for
   the same word. Where spellings differ, use the American English
   variant.  "color", not "colour", "rationalize", not "rationalise", and
   so on.

   Note: The use of British English may be accepted in the case of
   a contributed article, however the spelling must be consistent within
   the whole document. The other documents such as books, web site,
   manual pages, etc. will have to use American English.