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Secret mission: get more British (i.e. correct) English into kernel commit messages and documentation
@ljs the fact that the kernel has both the British and American spellings equally accepted suggests that the kernel is actually Canadian.

@monsieuricon @ljs hah!

but then.. maybe it is Canadian:

[jk@pecola linux]$ git grep -iw sorry | wc -l
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Petr Tesarik

@jk @monsieuricon @ljs This is my favourite occurrence:
*** ocfs2 is very sorry to be fencing this system by panicing ***
(except it should be spelled “panicking”, but I doubt it's worth a patch)