[wp-polyglots] Spelling

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but u understand the meaning ok thats the most important dont act like
stupid

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Andrew Nacin <wp at andrewnacin.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Safirul Alredha <zeo at unic.net.my> wrote:
>
>> There are couple of spelling conflicts in WordPress mainly because
>> WordPress doesn't have any known standards or guidelines (AFAIK) in
>> spelling or writing terms. For example: email vs. e-mail, website vs.
>> web site, url vs. URL.
>>
>
> I believe our current preference is e-mail, though email is more
> progressive and I imagine we'll gravitate to that soon. We actually have
> more instances of "email" in core than "e-mail," but we use the latter more
> prominently -- see General Settings for example.
>
> "website" and "URL" are also preferred. For spelling, we use American
> English -- so behavior, not behaviour, and license not licence. It would be
> good to create a small standard eventually.
>
> We'd rather not change dozens of strings for minor spelling/style
> variations so late in the development cycle -- this is something we'd do
> early on, say in 3.1. Only actual spelling mistakes, I'd say.
>
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