Speaking as a mostly recovered pedant, I heartily recommend giving in and just working in US english (all the time when coding, as needed in emails and discussi

Speaking as a mostly recovered pedant, I heartily recommend giving in and just working in US english (all the time when coding, as needed in emails and discussion threads). It's so much easier just to use "color", "center" etc, and generally stop fretting about it. Keep speaking and writing proper English at home, of course! Because we Brits share a language with the US, and because most software is written by americans, or by people who learnt american english as a second language, our language is being steadily eroded. I'm not sure there's any solution to that, unfortunately... Possibly building new software from scratch, and putting in place a strict style policy that code and comments must be in British English?