Re: Pod "banned words" check?

On Sat, Dec 06, 2025 at 08:43:16AM -0800, Karen Etheridge 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?

I don't think we did!

I usually write code comments and core documentation using British
English. For some reason a surprising number of senior p5pers over the
years have been from the UK; and with that safety in numbers, we've been
able to smuggle in our language quirks.

(Gor blimey guv, luv a duck! Etc.)