American or British English?

From: Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz>
Date: Jul 20, 2013, 20:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20130720205620.GA3825@domone>
In-Reply-To: <20130720193905.GA3904@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 07:39:06PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

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> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 09:13:12PM +0200, Ondřej Bílka wrote:
> > A dictionary that I generated is following, patch is below.
> > 
> >              alloted allocated
> 
> "allotted" is a valid word, and I think it would work fine in the code.
> It's probably what was intended, anyway.
>

OK, I am not native speaker so I sometimes choose simpler variant.

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> >            behaviour behavior
> >            colourful colorful
> >          initialised initialized
> 
> I'm not sure whether git has a standard for which dialect of English is
> to be used, but the three words on the left are considered correct in
> most non-American dialects.  Characterizing them as "typos" isn't
> strictly correct.  Perhaps "Convert comments to American English" is
> more accurate?
>

Yeah, on most projects I seen preference for consistently using American versions. How you decide is matter of preference.

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