docs/70920: [PATCH] fix couple typos && s/words/entities (handbook preface)

[Ken Smith]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:35:30AM +0100, Tom Hukins wrote:

> Me too, but I'm English and we write our documentation in American, so
> we should consider 'travelled' a typo.

This is one of the harder ones to nail down.  Most of the American/English
spelling issues at least have "one correct" American spelling but for
this one both spellings seem to be "accepted" in American writing.

I went through this a couple months ago with Ceri for "labeled" versus
"labelled" - both seem to be tolerated widely.  It's hard to decide
on "one central authority" to help with determining what's right.

That said, is there something we could as a project decide is close
enough to being a central authority?  Properties of such a thing would
be easy accesibility (preferrably for free :-) on a global basis since
we have lots of people all over the world contributing to the primary
American-ese docs.  Having something like that could help avoid a lot
of bikesheds-to-be... :-)

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