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Replace the word with a more commonly used one #399

Closed victoryforce closed 2 years ago

victoryforce commented 2 years ago

This is not a typo fix or switching to American spelling, but a purely stylistic change.

Major English dictionaries lists spatial as the preferred word and spacial as the less commonly used alternative (M-W) or spelling variant (Collins).

I do not want to say that spacial is invalid word, but Google Ngram shows that the word 'spacial' is used many orders of magnitude less frequently: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=spacial%2Cspatial&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3

elstoc commented 2 years ago

Agreed. Spatial is better. Will have to wait for the next version now though.