Go Wiki: Spelling

This page documents the spelling choices that the Go project has made for English words.

This page is a statement of policy. Do not edit it without approval/discussion.

Policy:

• American spellings over British spellings
• iff means “if and only if” (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iff), but don’t use it in public-facing docs (don’t use in comments on exported identifiers that would show up in godoc)
• avoid Latin abbreviations in godoc
• use cancellation (two ells), not cancelation. See https://go.dev/cl/170060
• use canceled (one ell), not cancelled.
• use canceling (one ell), not cancelling.
• use marshaling, marshaled etc (single ell). See https://go.dev/cl/33017

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