El mié, 05-02-2025 a las 09:57 -0800, Peter escribió: > I was just about to make a donation and noticed your website has > organization spelled organisation on the download page. > > As others have commented, that is the British English spelling. The Document Foundation is based in Germany, and en_UK is the norm for English translations in Europe. While it may surprise US English speakers "-ise" spelling actually makes sense, think of the pronunciation of "rise". (Note the "." outside of the quotation mark, also British.)
The curious part is that if you use the traditional "-ise" spellings in LO set to en_UK with LanguageTool, it will insist on telling you that Oxford accepts the "-ize" spelling. However, despite Brexit, Europe still uses not only British English, but its traditional orthography. Believe me on this -- I have been translating here for years. More than you wanted to know, but maybe you can use it for small talk at parties...or as a conversation stopper. :-) Best, Roy PS I DK about the Document Foundation's use of US vocabulary, but it would make sense as US English dominates in the programming world. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
