Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 38674 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2005 10:08:14 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 16 Mar 2005 10:08:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 9069 invoked by uid 500); 16 Mar 2005 10:08:11 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 9021 invoked by uid 500); 16 Mar 2005 10:08:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@ant.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list dev@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 8978 invoked by uid 99); 16 Mar 2005 10:08:11 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (hermes.apache.org: local policy) Received: from gort.hpl.hp.com (HELO gort.hpl.hp.com) (192.6.10.17) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.28) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 02:08:10 -0800 Received: from timmay.hpl.hp.com (timmay-hb.hpl.hp.com [15.144.59.39]) by gort.hpl.hp.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2GA7bon014723 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:07:38 GMT Received: from [15.144.25.135] (chamonix.hpl.hp.com [15.144.25.135]) by timmay.hpl.hp.com (8.13.2/8.13.2) with ESMTP id j2GA7QUI013581 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:07:26 GMT Message-ID: <4238055D.4030804@apache.org> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:07:25 +0000 From: Steve Loughran User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (X11/20040615) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: Doc spelling? References: <4237A647.1070000@it.fts-vn.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HPLB-IMAP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the Helpdesk for more information X-HPLB-IMAP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-HPLB-IMAP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 5) X-HPL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the Helpdesk for more information X-HPL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-HPL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.374, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -0.84, AWL -0.53) X-MailScanner-From: stevel@apache.org X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Kev Jackson wrote: > > >>US or British spelling? Customize/Customise? > > > We had the discussion once about spelled/spelt IIRC. > > Ant is one of the very few open source projects I know where the > number of US committers is vastly outnumbered by people coming from > other countries. AFAIU Australians are closer to British spelling and > the French/Dutch/German[1] among us will probably have learnt British > spelling in school (as if I'd recall what I've learnt there). > Nowadays I try and use phrases that arent too divergent across locales, the "misspelt is misspelled" debacle showed why. Notice that the new unknown task diagnostics does *not* use either spelling. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@ant.apache.org