Re: Possible Bug in s.tmac (forked from: [Groff] pointsize changes in .NH ms-macro)

[Meg McRoberts]

--- Peter Schaffter <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004, Werner Lemberg wrote:
> > 
> > > I note that you changed my spelling of 'initialisation' to
> > > 'initialization'.  Personally, I think this Americanised spelling is
> > > ugly, but I'm sure that is just because I'm British, and our friends
> > > on the west side of the Atlantic would disagree -- in any case, it
> > > isn't *really* important.
> > 
> > Everything in the groff docs use `-zation' instead of `-sation'.  If
> > you find something different, just tell me.  We could change
> > everything to `-sation', but since groff uses American English
> > hyphenation patterns by default, I think it is not the worst choice to
> > stay with American English (without using `nite' or `brite', of
> > course).
> 
> This sounds very much like the Canadian solution to the
> British/American spelling problem.  :)

I must say that I've always questioned the decision of the technical
community to make American English the standard.  Outside of the USA,
don't most of the schools teach British English?

Sigh,
Meg