From: "Nicholas Berry" <nikberry@med.umich.edu>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:26:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s003b9c2.082@med-gwia-01a.med.umich.edu> (raw)
>>>> Måns Rullgård <mru@kth.se> 01/13/04 09:07AM >>>
>"Randal, Phil" <prandal@herefordshire.gov.uk> writes:
>>> Fixing typos I like - occurences should be occurrences and comiled
>>> compiled - but fixing something that is correct in English because
>>> it is wrong in American? There are occasional words in Polish,
>>> Danish, French, German in the kernel. I wouldn't mind some words
>>> in English.
>>
>> I'd hazard a guess that number of non-American English speakers far
>> outnumbers the Americans, so can we stick to the Queen's English please?
> Of the persons with some form of English as a native language, I guess
> the Americans are the majority. For the rest, it shouldn't really
> matter which variety they use.
>
> --
> Måns Rullgård
> mru@kth.se
69% of mother tongue English speakers live in the US (as of 1995).
If you add in Lingua Franca and bilingual users, it's a little under 55%.
But loads of New England natives use some British spellings.
Nik Berry
(Queens English speaker in the US)
next reply other threads:[~2004-01-13 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-13 14:26 Nicholas Berry [this message]
2004-01-13 22:46 ` [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' Peter Horton
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2004-01-13 13:42 Randal, Phil
2004-01-13 14:07 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-13 13:35 Andries.Brouwer
2003-08-08 8:25 Andries.Brouwer
2003-08-07 20:40 Andries.Brouwer
2003-08-07 18:00 Jasper Spaans
2003-08-07 22:37 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-08 0:04 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-08-08 16:54 ` Steven Cole
2003-08-08 7:13 ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-08 1:42 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-08-08 6:52 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-08 6:57 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-08-08 7:15 ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-08 7:33 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-08 7:40 ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-08 8:00 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-08 8:54 ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-08 7:45 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-08-08 7:07 ` Alexander Winston
2003-08-08 7:31 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-08 7:11 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-08-08 15:18 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-08 15:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-08-08 15:48 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-08-08 16:42 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-08 17:03 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-08 17:34 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-08 18:02 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-08 15:50 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-08 16:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-08-08 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-08 17:33 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-09 0:24 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-08-09 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-09 0:45 ` Jasper Spaans
2003-08-09 1:04 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-08-09 1:17 ` Ian Hastie
2003-08-09 7:23 ` jw schultz
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