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>>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>>I've checked this link http://grammarist.com/spelling/cancel/ but I am not 100% sure which spelling should I choose. The software is written by US company, but may be used by US, Canadian, NZ and Australian clients. It may also be used internationally in other countries.
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>>>>So, just wondering what spelling do you prefer in your code?
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>>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>>I wouldn't worry much about it. The meaning of the word is well understood by English speakers everywhere, even if there is a slight difference in spelling. Neither is incorrect.
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>>I have another case of, I believe, wrong usage of the word - I am not sure if I need to correct it, though.
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>>Let's consider this text
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>>"The incentive is satisfied if the Group Level (actually lesson level) for the event satisfies the specified criteria."
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>>For each individual criterion we perform a check whether conditions are satisfied or not and then print this kind of the message. To be 100% correct we need to use the word "criterion" here, not "criteria". However, I am not sure if it's worth the trouble of fixing all the code (because this kind of text is repeated over and over again in that class).
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>>What do you think?
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>"Conditions" is plural, so shouldn't it be "criteria"?

True. By conditions I mean - say, we want to define incentive as number of hours taught between 10 and 20. So, on the form we can specify low boundary and upper boundary (we can also specify the < = > sign for the comparison).

So, given that information, do you think the word "criteria" is correct for this context?
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