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

[Pieter Praet]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:16:13 -0400, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
> needs rebasing against master. 
> 

Actually, it's been superseded by:
  id:"1327222469-29487-1-git-send-email-pieter at praet.org"

> d
> 
> P.S. Personally think it's a bit silly, [...]

Perhaps it is, but then again, spelling errors may be considered as
being indicative of the quality of the project as a whole, so it
wouldn't hurt to keep them to a minimum.

> [...] but that might be because I'm
> Canadian, and we are all about the inconsistent anglo/american
> spelling. [...]

Exactly!

"American and Canadian spelling accepts only -ize endings in
most cases, [...]" [1]  :)

> [...] But if the consensus is to follow the UN black helicopter
> spelling police, ok :).

Follow WHO? (lame pun intended...)


Peace

-- 
Pieter

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-ise.2C_-ize_.28-isation.2C_-ization.29