Craig Ringer wrote: > > >In fact, only one (Peter) is even from the US. He saw sense and moved to >France :-P >Both Craigs are from Australia, Paul is from the UK, and everyone else >is from European countries with different native languages. > > > On the other hand, typically software is made to satisfy the users, maybe even more than the developers.
>The only thing worse than having to misspell colour and grey is to have >to remember that you have to spell them correctly in UI strings, and >misspell them when talking to C/C++ API. Don't even get me started on >API documentation. > > > Actually, I don't think Americans care much about spelling. It might just was well be 'culler': Q: "Wut culler is dat bannaner?" A: "Yeller". It's the Brits (and maybe the Canadians, too) that feel passionate about 'grey', we spell it 'grey' or 'gray'. Greg
