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British or American English? #324

Open Ainali opened 11 months ago

Ainali commented 11 months ago

The age-old question about British or American English :) I'll approve this, but I think we should document in our style guide which one we are going for so that we can be consistent over time. Or do you believe this could vary by country and that Belgium rather use American spelling?

Originally posted by @Ainali in https://github.com/govdirectory/website/pull/323#pullrequestreview-1747673616

I think we should do a combination of these. First, if a country has a preference, then we should use that. And if not, I suggest we default to British English, but if someone has a good argument for American, I am easily convinced. And then we should document this in appropriate places.

RVA2869 commented 11 months ago

Kind of related to #27

Ainali commented 11 months ago

Kind of related to #27

A little bit, yes, but I think this is particularly needed for all the text that we don't get from Wikidata. Issue 27 mostly focuses on the values we retrieve. (There is also a larger question about making the entire site translateable, but one small step at the time. :smiley: )

Abbe98 commented 3 weeks ago

How do our current spellcheck work in relation to this @Ainali ?

Ainali commented 3 weeks ago

I am not entirely sure, and on the train, but think it is set on en-us.