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| title: Spelling |
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| This page documents the spelling choices that the Go project has made for English words. |
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| This page is a statement of policy. Do not edit it without approval/discussion. |
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| Policy: |
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| - American spellings over British spellings |
| - **iff** means "if and only if" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iff), but don't use it in public-facing docs (don't use in comments on exported identifiers that would show up in godoc) |
| - avoid Latin abbreviations in godoc |
| - use **cancellation** (two ells), not cancelation. See https://go.dev/cl/170060 |
| - use **canceled** (one ell), not cancelled. |
| - use **canceling** (one ell), not cancelling. |
| - use **marshaling**, **marshaled** etc (single ell). See https://go.dev/cl/33017 |
| - use **white space**, not whitespace. |
