[tei-council] licen{cs}e

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at inria.fr
Mon Apr 25 00:19:36 EDT 2011


For what it's worth, ISO uses "licence": and that's the French spelling as well (just to add another empire to the debate).So what remains of my frenchitude would suggest 'c'.

Le 25 avr. 2011 à 01:50, Martin Holmes a écrit :

> We could go with "licensing", which would be the same in both empires.
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> On 11-04-24 03:48 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> There is a long and hono{u}rable condition in the TEI of trying to avoid
>> spellings which are markedly either North American or British English.
>> Wherever possible, we prefer a non-marked synonym if one can be identified.
>> 
>> I am therefore appealing for help with the proposed new child element of
>> <availability>. If no synonym springs to the collective mind,  may I
>> create it as "licence"? Or do I just have to accept the cultural
>> hegemony implicit in adopting the spelling "license"?
>> 
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