American vs. British English spelling differences

[bl-ue]

We ought to normalize the American vs. British English spelling differences of words across all of our English pages.

For example: organization vs. organisation, color vs. colour.

Question is: which to go with?

[bl-ue]

I'm inclined to pick the American spelling, because:

1. It's more common across developer-oriented sites and projects
2. It's what we use in our official documents like COMMUNITY-ROLES.md

[bl-ue]

Once decided upon, I will take the issue in hand ;)

[sbrl]

This was discussed previously I think. It was decided that we should use American English. I'm in the UK myself, so I don't always remember.

[bl-ue]

Perhaps #294 (diff)?

[sbrl]

Wow, great searching skills! That wasn't the one I was thinking of, but it'll definitely do as input here. I would guess from reading that the general consensus is to correct things when we see it, but don't go out of our way to change it.

[bl-ue]

So you don't think I should open a PR to normalize this?

[sbrl]

Hrm, I'm not sure. Let's wait for others to weigh in on this.

[waldyrious]

My hat's off to you, @bl-ue — great searching skills indeed! 😮

I stand by my suggestion in that thread that US English is more prevalent online, despite not being the "original" (the same way that Brazilian Portuguese is more prevalent than Iberian Portuguese 😅) so if we're to pick a default, I'd argue that it should be en-US.

That said, I don't feel too strongly about this, so not enforcing any standard would probably be just as fine (it's not like anyone will fail to understand a tldr page if it spells "colour" instead of "colour", after all).

[bl-ue]

Okay, then I'll close this issues as I'd say a consensus has been reached. I'll not go normalize them, I'll just fix silenty them in PRs (maybe).

[sbrl]

Agreed - I don't think it's particularly important to standardise this.