Re: Pod "banned words" check?

[email protected] (Karen Etheridge)
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <[email protected]>
wrote:

> As a British speaker, I often unwittingly write words like
> "unrecognised" in Perl code, only to later find that we standardised ^W
> standardized on US English spelling, and have to fix it.
>

Did we? Is this a written policy?

As a non-US english speaker who has been employed with US companies for a
while, this is something that I've often struggled with, and my general
stance has been "I wrote it, so I decide how it's spelled."
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