On Thu, 2005-13-10 at 10:16 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Given that a substantial fraction of our community is accustomed to
> British spellings, I've never felt that it was appropriate to try to
> standardize either way.
The same reasoning applies to the audience of (and contributors to) most
publications. AFAIK it is not considered good style to mix spelling
variants freely -- we should pick one variant and use it consistently.
(If we're going to be really precise, we could also decide to follow a
set of conventions on punctuation, capitalization, and other minor style
issues, but I can't get too excited about it.)
-Neil