On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:16:13 -0400, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:23:43 +0100, Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org> wrote: > > "Worldwide, -ize endings prevail in scientific writing and are commonly > > used by many international organizations, such as the ISO and the > > WHO. The European Union switched from -ize to -ise some years ago in its > > English language publications, and this resulted in the coexistence of > > needs rebasing against master. > Actually, it's been superseded by: id:"1327222469-29487-1-git-send-email-pieter@praet.org" > d > > P.S. Personally think it's a bit silly, [...] Perhaps it is, but then again, spelling errors may be considered as being indicative of the quality of the project as a whole, so it wouldn't hurt to keep them to a minimum. > [...] but that might be because I'm > Canadian, and we are all about the inconsistent anglo/american > spelling. [...] Exactly! "American and Canadian spelling accepts only -ize endings in most cases, [...]" [1] :) > [...] But if the consensus is to follow the UN black helicopter > spelling police, ok :). Follow WHO? (lame pun intended...) Peace -- Pieter [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-ise.2C_-ize_.28-isation.2C_-ization.29