[tei-council] licen{cs}e

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Mon Apr 25 09:19:54 EDT 2011


Well huzzah to that!

On 25/04/11 14:18, David Sewell wrote:
> The standard dictionary used as an authority by US scholarly publishers
> (Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate) has "licence" as an alternate spelling
> rather than as "Brit var", so I wouldn't hesitate simply to use that form unless
> everyone prefers "licensing".
>
> David
>
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Laurent Romary wrote:
>
>> 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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>> Laurent Romary
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