From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 13:49:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C61516A4CE; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:49:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A77643D46; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:49:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (kensmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i7PDnCTH008320; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:49:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id i7PDnC6C008319; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:49:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:49:12 -0400 From: Ken Smith To: Tom Hukins , Marc Fonvieille , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20040825134912.GD6962@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <200408250710.i7P7AZOY085264@freefall.freebsd.org> <20040825093530.GA22838@eborcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040825093530.GA22838@eborcom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: docs/70920: [PATCH] fix couple typos && s/words/entities (handbook preface) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:49:13 -0000 On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:35:30AM +0100, Tom Hukins wrote: > Me too, but I'm English and we write our documentation in American, so > we should consider 'travelled' a typo. This is one of the harder ones to nail down. Most of the American/English spelling issues at least have "one correct" American spelling but for this one both spellings seem to be "accepted" in American writing. I went through this a couple months ago with Ceri for "labeled" versus "labelled" - both seem to be tolerated widely. It's hard to decide on "one central authority" to help with determining what's right. That said, is there something we could as a project decide is close enough to being a central authority? Properties of such a thing would be easy accesibility (preferrably for free :-) on a global basis since we have lots of people all over the world contributing to the primary American-ese docs. Having something like that could help avoid a lot of bikesheds-to-be... :-) -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |