British or American spellings

[Dicentra spectabilis]

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<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:

> Hah ! Our first major hurdle. The list is 70-80% US members I seem to 
> remember.. but, dare I say it, because the books are British, we 
> should try and use Brit spelling ?? Think of it as a homage to JKR...

I vote for British spelling *and* punctuation.  It *is* the convention
that JKR uses when she writes, after all.  Despite the overwhelming US
majority on the lists, it would do us Yanks a bit of good to abide by
another set of conventions instead of having everything translated for us.

--Dicentra, who thought Barry's analysis was a hootenizer