6763 2009-04-03 08:15:57 +0000 Inconsistent use of American and British English 2010-10-04 13:58:04 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified All All RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ P3 normal --- 1 jens ian mike mjs public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 24529 0 jens 2009-04-03 08:15:57 +0000 (Apologies for not searching W3C Bugzilla for duplicates.) The spec draft currently uses both American and British English. While I’m not a 100 % sure if W3C documents aren’t and shouldn’t be usually written in American English anyway, making this consistent would definitely be helpful. In case we’d like to default to American English, here’s a list of words in the spec that seem to be of British origin: * behaviour * categorise/categorised * colour/coloured * emphasised * favour * favourite * flavours * honour * optimise * recognise/recognised * serialise/serialisation * tokeniser 33079 1 mjs 2010-03-14 13:17:32 +0000 This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy. If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment. 33535 2 jens 2010-03-14 16:40:31 +0000 There is still a range of language inconsistencies in the spec. A comment could help clarifying whether that’s intended or not (and if intended, why). Reopening. 33543 3 mjs 2010-03-14 18:01:14 +0000 As a quick check, I found instances of both "behavior" and "behaviour" in the current editor's draft. 34217 4 ian 2010-03-31 08:45:29 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. The spec prose is supposed to be American English, but I often forget myself and write in British English. Please do let me know if I missed anything. (Note that many examples are explicitly in British English and so not in error. Similarly most of the comments in the spec source are intentionally in British English.) 34218 5 contributor 2010-03-31 08:46:57 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r4918. Check-in comment: americanization http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4917&to=4918