[drupal-docs] standard for spelling in docs?

Anisa mystavash at animecards.org
Sun May 22 04:17:26 UTC 2005


I made a child page to the authoring guidelines for spelling things: 
http://drupal.org/node/23367

It can be integrated into the original guidelines if one page is more 
desirable, but I thought it might get a little cluttered. 

Anisa.

Anisa wrote:

> gyah!  I can only carry one conscious thought in my head at one time 
> right now...  never go to karaoke when you have to go to work the next 
> day...  ;p
>
> So last night, reading through all the doc mails before complete 
> collapse, it suddenly occurred to me, we say spell check spell check, 
> but what about things that are just differences between American and 
> British spellings?  We should stick to one.  Color vs. Colour.  I get 
> the sense that the current documentation is mostly American spellings, 
> but I can't do any complicated thinking at the moment, so maybe this 
> is not true.  Drupal is founded by a European, so you would think 
> British, but really, it doesn't matter which, just pick one.  
> Obviously one is not better than the other.
>
> Anisa.

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