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Re: [LUG] American/ British English

 

Martinus Scriblerus wrote:
> On 5/1/06, Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
>> One day we'll get those Yanks using aluminium too.
>> ;-)
> 
> I hope so - but they've managed to get the IUPAC to spell sulphur with
> an f (something I prefer not to do). See:
> http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-sul1.htm

Hehe - and I was going to ask those nice folk at Debian to use US
English consistently in their package descriptions.

http://www.debian-administration.org/users/simonw/weblog/47#comment_2

Will that make me a pariah here?

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