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

[Ceri Davies]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:49:12AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> 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... :-)

The Chicago Manual of Style covers which word to use in these cases, and
I will check it when I get home.

Unfortunately it's not freely accessible, but Murray, Tom Rhodes and
myself all have a copy and I, at least, would be happy to look stuff up
in it.

Ceri
-- 
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