RE: English variant in Telecom materials

[Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>]

Why would you be annoyed? If the documents are written in British 
English, then British spelling and usage would be correct in that 
context, so what you're doing isn't proofreading.

What if one of your non-American readers sent feedback saying she'd just 
proofread your manual, was very annoyed, had highlighted all the US 
spellings, refused to finish reading it, and so on?

Stuart

Lauren said:
 > I would have a hard time dealing with instructions written in
 > British-English because the support documents that I read are
 > normally American-English. Not that I wouldn't be able to read
 > the documents, but I would get very annoyed and proofread the
 > document in my head while I read, so I might get too annoyed
 > and never finish the document,
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