[PATCH 1/3] emacs: s/buttonise/buttonize/g

David Edmondson dme at dme.org
Mon Jan 16 03:38:45 PST 2012


On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:23:43 +0100, Pieter Praet <pieter at praet.org> wrote:
> "Worldwide, -ize endings prevail in scientific writing and are commonly
> used by many international organizations, such as the ISO and the
> WHO. The European Union switched from -ize to -ise some years ago in its
> English language publications, and this resulted in the coexistence of
> the -ize spelling in older legislative acts and the -ise spelling in
> more recent ones." ... and other convincing reasons [1].
> 
> Let's follow the good example of academic and standards bodies,
> instead of the errors of a non-democratic pseudo-authority [2].
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#Greek-derived_spellings
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_deficit_in_the_European_Union

Reluctantly, +1.
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