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 .SS Spelling
 Starting with release 2.59,
 .I man-pages
-follows American spelling conventions;
+follows American spelling conventions
+(previously, there was a random mix of British and American spallings);
 please write all new pages and patches according to these conventions.
 .SS Capitalization
 In subsection ("SS") headings