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Re: RIPE BCP -- English spelling

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  • From: Rodney Tillotson < >
  • Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:01:55 +0000

(was: RIPE BCP for combating UBE - Feedback)
At 23:18 GMT 10/03/2000, Andrew Hart wrote:

 > I'm not sure if it is a difference between Queen's English <g>
 > and the state's use of the Websters Dictionary, http://www.m-w.com

Yes, there are some of those; as Gyan Mathur has already commented,
the BCP was written in the UK and uses UK spelling -- but consistently.

If this is a barrier to the widest possible adoption of the document
we could do things differently when the content is revised.
(It may not be helpful to call such changes 'corrections' ...)


Rodney.





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