Improved spelling, align with American English

[kebbet]

Per the ​spelling guidelines, American English should be preferred in Core.

There are a few other occurrences of -ise vs. -ize and -or vs. -our that we should correct all at once.

For example:

• colour vs. color
• organise vs. organize
• behaviour vs. behavior

​This page could be a reference for spelling.

This ticket is a break out #56792

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56811

This replaces two instances of "cancelled" with "canceled", per the ​Spelling Guidelines.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56811

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56811

[audrasjb]

The "behaviour/behavior" PR looks good to me.
Self assigning for commit.

[audrasjb]

In 54663:

Docs: Align spelling with American English.

This changeset replaces "behaviour" with "behavior" in various docblocks.

Props kebbet, jrf.
See #56811, #56792.

Committed in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/54663

[audrasjb]

In 54664:

Docs: Align spelling with American English.

This changeset replaces "cancelled" with "canceled" in various docblocks, per the ​Spelling Guidelines.

Props costdev.
See #56811, #56792.

Committed in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/54664

Update use of "-ise" suffix to American English "-ize". Checked for (normal|standard|initial|color|colour)ise.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56811

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56811

• [Spelling: behaviuor in postbox.js]
• [Initialise and authorisation]

[audrasjb]

In 55043:

Docs: Align spelling with American English.

This changeset updates the use of "-ise" suffix to American English "-ize" in docblocks.

Follow-up to [54663], [54664].

Props ironprogrammer, costdev.
See #56811, #56792.

[audrasjb]

In 55044:

Docs: Align spelling with American English.

This changeset updates the use of "-ise" suffix to American English "-ize" and replaces "behaviour" with "behavior" in various docblocks.

Follow-up to [54663], [54664], [55043].

Props kebbet.
See #56811, #56792.

Committed in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/55044

[audrasjb]

In 55045:

General: Align spelling with American English.

This changeset renames url-friendly-colour to url-friendly-color in _admin.scss.

Follow-up to [54663], [54664], [55043], [55044].

Props kebbet.
See #56811.

Committed in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/55045

[audrasjb]

Hello there,

All the PR have been committed now. Let's keep this ticket open for other occurrences.

[kebbet]

Just finding some more: unsanitised, parenthesised and specialised. A PR is needed for them.

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56811

This changeset updates the use of "-ise" suffix to American English "-ize".

[peterwilsoncc]

I'm worried about [55045] being an unnecessary back-compat break, the function will no longer work for developers using it in their own admin CSS files.

Is it possible to retain or at least alias it?

[audrasjb]

Hmm, that's a good point @peterwilsoncc, I found 14 plugins using this function using wpdirectory.
While they shouldn't break since they are just reusing the function for custom admin themes, I think we should not take the risk.
Also, this is a very minor change, I'm not sure we should take the risk for such a tiny improvement.

I'll revert this change, that's probably the most relevant option for now.
Thanks for chiming in 👍

[peterwilsoncc]

Thanks @audrasjb -- while you are reverting are you able to add a comment explaining it's using British English to maintain backward compatibility for developers using the function in their scss?

[audrasjb]

Sure, let's keep some kind of history 🙂

@kebbet Thanks for PR. Looks good to me and approved for merge!

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56811

Revert the name change of the admin scss-function. Keep function url-friendly-colour to maintain backward compatibility.

[kebbet]

@peterwilsoncc Thanks for raising your concerns!

@audrasjb: PR3840 addresses the concern and adds a comment on British English.

[audrasjb]

In 55048:

General: revert [55045].

This changeset reverts [55045] to maintain backward compatibility for developers using the function in their SCSS.

Follow-up to [55045].

Unprops audrasjb.
Props peterwilsoncc, kebbet.
See #56811.

Committed in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/55048

[audrasjb]

In 55051:

Docs: Align spelling with American English.

This changeset updates the use of "-ise" suffix to American English "-ize" in various files.

Follow-up to [54663], [54664], [55043], [55044].

Props kebbet, mukesh27.
See #56811, #56792.

Committed in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/55051

[costdev]

@audrasjb @kebbet Looks like all patches have been merged. Is there anything left for this ticket, or is it ready to close as fixed?

[kebbet]

Thanks for heads up @costdev!

I suggest closing this as fixed. Any new non US-english findings can be adressed in one or multiple follow-up tickets.

I know from my investigations that there is more British English spelling in core, but it's in the included libraries.

[audrasjb]

Closing this as fixed, thanks everyone.

[SergeyBiryukov]

#58315 was marked as a duplicate.