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The question is, which spelling do Canadians get?

by alanctgardner2 13y ago

dubcanada 13y ago
Which ever one Tim Horton's uses!
- alanctgardner2 13y ago
  Tragically, Tim Hortons writes "donut", I believe. If we petition them, maybe they'll apologize and change it.
Sunlis 13y ago
US, unfortunately. I'm not convinced of the accuracy of the script's list of commonwealth countries. I could have sworn Canada was part of the commonwealth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwea...
- MartinMcGirk 13y ago
  It is a very valuable member of the Commonwealth, but as I understand it it uses a mix of Commonwealth English and US English and I didn't get round to including it as an option.
  - cbhl 13y ago
    To be honest, you could serve up either and you'd be fine. The key cases I think are cheque (vs. check), colour (vs. color), and neighbour (vs. neighbor) and "fuck" is none of those. Or you could sign up for an open source account at http://crowdin.net/ http://crowdin.net/ and just let us do it ourselves.
  - can-you-do-math 13y ago
    Commonwealth English. God you are dumb.
MartinMcGirk 13y ago
Canada was a toughie that I meant to get around to later. I was working from the reference at http://wikitravel.org/en/English_language_varieties http://wikitravel.org/en/English_language_varieties which has three categories of English; "Commonwealth English", "US English" and "Canada". It didn't really give me enough detail on Canadian English to create a new category there and then though so I left it as a "I should get around to looking this up soon". My apologies to the fine people of Canada. I'll look at rectifying it shortly.
- alanctgardner2 13y ago
  > My apologies You know the way to our hearts. Personally, I think defaulting to Commonwealth is sufficient for Canadians. On a side note, does it pluralize "octopus" differently by region? I've always been a big fan of "octopodes" as the plural, which is not really accepted anyways.

The question is, which spelling do Canadians get?

dubcanada 13y ago

Which ever one Tim Horton's uses!

alanctgardner2 13y ago
Tragically, Tim Hortons writes "donut", I believe. If we petition them, maybe they'll apologize and change it.

Sunlis 13y ago

US, unfortunately. I'm not convinced of the accuracy of the script's list of commonwealth countries. I could have sworn Canada was part of the commonwealth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwea...

MartinMcGirk 13y ago
It is a very valuable member of the Commonwealth, but as I understand it it uses a mix of Commonwealth English and US English and I didn't get round to including it as an option.
- cbhl 13y ago
  To be honest, you could serve up either and you'd be fine. The key cases I think are cheque (vs. check), colour (vs. color), and neighbour (vs. neighbor) and "fuck" is none of those. Or you could sign up for an open source account at http://crowdin.net/ http://crowdin.net/ and just let us do it ourselves.
- can-you-do-math 13y ago
  Commonwealth English. God you are dumb.

MartinMcGirk 13y ago

Canada was a toughie that I meant to get around to later. I was working from the reference at http://wikitravel.org/en/English_language_varieties http://wikitravel.org/en/English_language_varieties which has three categories of English; "Commonwealth English", "US English" and "Canada". It didn't really give me enough detail on Canadian English to create a new category there and then though so I left it as a "I should get around to looking this up soon". My apologies to the fine people of Canada. I'll look at rectifying it shortly.

alanctgardner2 13y ago
> My apologies You know the way to our hearts. Personally, I think defaulting to Commonwealth is sufficient for Canadians. On a side note, does it pluralize "octopus" differently by region? I've always been a big fan of "octopodes" as the plural, which is not really accepted anyways.