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profquail on Aug 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: If PHP Were British

Well, it's not "colour", but there are actually a few types in the .NET Base Class Library (BCL) which use the British spelling. Example: the StackBehaviour enumeration (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.em...)

ajanuary on Aug 21, 2011 [–]

I remember hearing a story about how bits of the BCL were written in Britain and originally used "Colour", but they were made to change it to standardise upon american english across the BCL.

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