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PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 12:12 am 
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Sorry about this, but this is one of my largest grammar annoyances!

I noticed that the releases page uses "license" as a noun, which is a rather crass Americanism. In English the noun form should be "licence" with a verb form of "license" (e.g. It is released under the GPL licence, but it is licensed by retrosoftware). The American dialect uses "license" in both forms.

Just call me a pedant and grumpy for pointing this out.


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:47 am 
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My wife is a Hungarian and a linguist and she always picks me up on this.

She tells me to think of "advice and advise"...


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:16 pm 
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Pedants welcome (to a certain degree ... :)).

Fixed, except where people have specifically mentioned the GPL which officially uses the American spelling.

Sam.


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