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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 or only iff" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iff), but we don't use it in public-facing docs (not if it'd show up in exported identifiers in godoc)
+* avoid Latin abbreviations in godoc
+* use **cancellation** (two ells), not cancelation. See https://golang.org/cl/170060
+* use **canceled** (one ell), not cancelled.
+* use **canceling** (one ell), not cancelling.
+* use **marshaling**, **marshaled** etc (single ell). See https://golang.org/cl/33017