[HIG] Copy editing standards

[Adam Elman <aelman users sourceforge net>]

Just glancing through the stuff that Colin has committed.  One thing 
that struck me was that since we have both English and American 
speakers contributing :), we're going to have some conflicts between 
British & American spelling and grammar rules.

The GNOME Documentation Project style guide (see 
http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/technicaldetails.html#GNOME-GRAMMAR-USAGE 
) recommends American grammar & spelling rules.  I don't want this to 
get in the way of getting content written, so I'm happy to do the 
copy editing later, but just wanted y'all to be aware of it now.

The one grammatical rule difference that always throws me is the 
British use of the plural to refer to an organization/group: for 
instance, "The GNOME Project have recommended..."  This is incorrect 
in American grammar; rather, one would say "The GNOME Project has 
recommended...".
(I once spent half an hour fixing this apparent error in a contract 
from Oxford University Press that I was reviewing before I realized 
that the rule was different. :)

Anyway, don't stress about this; I'm happy to go in and fix these 
fairly late in the process.  But I did want to warn you that such 
editing will probably happen at some point.

Adam
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