Coding standards at work calls for US English in our codebase. So I’m typing words like “color,” “initialize,” and “data center.” And it pains me. I know that’s irrational but, you know, I never claimed to be rational when it comes to things like this.

At least the spell-checker’s on my side.

Screen shot of this post showing red lines under the American spelling of 'color', 'initialize' and 'data center' indicating that they're miss-spelt