[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#16642) British English in source

["Mike Kaufman" <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=16642 >

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:18:12AM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=16642 >
> 
> > [dmarks - Mon Apr 24 13:17:15 2006]:
> > 
> > Minimal patch that changes two instances of "cancelled" to "canceled". 
> > 
> > Should be applied to TRUNK only to avoid fuzzying S2_1 l10ns.
> 
> You're saying "cancelled" is british while "canceled" is american english?
> 
> If so, go ahead and commit this.  Though as an american I think
> cancelled looks a little more "right"...

I too looked this up in my american english dictionary, cuz I couln't quite
believe it, and indeed the latter form appeared before the former, but I 
agree with Jason: the single 'l' version is almost never used.

-mike