[whatwg] Spelling error: labelled --> labeled

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue Apr 22 03:51:23 PDT 2008


On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Elliotte Harold wrote:
>
> Multiple times in the draft "labelled" should be change to "labeled" 
> (unless maybe this is a British spelling?) I always get this one wrong 
> myself, and wouldn't have noticed if the spell checker in Thunderbird 
> hadn't complained.
> 
> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/labeled

Both are correct. The spec consistently uses labelled, and I'm almost 
certainly going to keep spelling it that way, so I'll just leave it like 
that for now. :-)

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