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

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

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

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 12:24 -0500, Michael Kaufman wrote:
> 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
> &#0;

Statistics from freeciv.pot:
7 'canceled'
2 'cancelled'


-Daniel