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Should tags be written in American or in British English?

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On Cooking, I sometimes run into comprehension issues as food is labelled differently around the world. One recent example for this is ground beef and minced meat which both essentially mean the same, however, the first one is used primarily in American English and the second one in British English.

These small comprehension issues are easily sorted out in the comments but I thought about tags where you don't have the opportunity to discuss their meanings. Should these be written in American English or in British English? Should American and British English tags coexist peacefully alongside? What about synonyms? Especially on Cooking, it would be helpful to find the right tag if you search for both ground beef and minced meat.

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Lundin‭ wrote over 4 years ago · edited over 4 years ago

I think it depends on the context.

To take one example, technical ISO/IEC programming standards for C and C++ uses American English, simply because these were originally American standards that became international. So there's formal technical terms such as undefined behavior (not behaviour), always with American spelling. Otherwise technical standards most often use British English - I suppose because ISO is located in Switzerland and Europeans tend to favour British English.

Lundin‭ wrote over 4 years ago

(As a non-English European I had honestly never heard the term ground beef until this post, I've always used the term minced meat and didn't even know it was British.)

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Martin Bonner‭ wrote over 4 years ago

Note that minced may is more general than ground beef. It can be used of lamb or pork too.