armor or armour?

[tangar]

Angband guide got both variants - armor or armour:

https://angband.readthedocs.io/en/latest/search.html?q=armour

https://angband.readthedocs.io/en/latest/search.html?q=armor

`Armor` is commonly used in USA, while `armour` in England (homeland of Tolkien).

The charts below display the rate of usage of armor vs. armour in English books in the American and British English language communities, respectively:

[LordRotharoth]

I'm from the US, and I say armour. Just because personally I think it's right.

[Nick]

It's actually been a conscious decision by the devs to allow both, because development of the game has been split between armor- and armour-speaking people. We even have this function:

/**
 * Small hack to allow both spellings of armer
 */
char *de_armour(const char *name)
{
	char newname[40];
	char *armour;

	my_strcpy(newname, name, sizeof(newname));
	armour = strstr(newname, "armour");
	if (armour)
		my_strcpy(armour + 4, "r", 2);

	return string_make(newname);
}

[Sideways]

Apparently the devs accept more than just two spellings

[Pete Mack]

Lovely, lovely comment.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

I live in the U.S. and this discussion reminds me of an incident way back in Honors English class in High School. Bill was an exchange student from England and the teacher, head of the English department and very old, read that as "senile", kept "correcting" Bill's English. Finally, he'd had enough, he lept out of his chair and said, "Woman! You have bastardized the English language!" and stormed out of the room. I loved it!!!

[wobbly]

Clearly arma is correct. As in "gotta get me arma on"

[DavidMedley]

char *de_armour(const char *name)
{
	char newname[40];
	char *armour;

	my_strcpy(newname, name, sizeof(newname));
	armour = strstr(newname, "armour");
	if (armour)
		my_strcpy(armour + 4, "r", 2);

	return string_make(newname);
}

I've never appreciated regular expressions more.

[Carnivean]

You have bastardized the English language!

I love the irony of you using a z there.

[Ed_47569]

Maybe have it as a birth option...

Seriously, I'm not worried either way. I see Angband as a great Anglo-American creation - Moria and uMoria were created in the US, and then became Angband at Warwick in the UK.

[tangar]

I got no problem with both variants.. It's just a bit strange to read the guide, one whole document with both variations it in. Maybe in the guide there should be choosen one variant, as mainly new players read it and they could be a bit confused by both (cause they won't get the humour, as most of newbies don't know much about Angband)... Imagine - new player (millennial, Z or even Alpha) get the game, opens a guide and see both variation It could confuse newbie? Or maybe it's just my boomer grumbling?

[Voovus]

Part of the guide was translated from Quenya and part from Sindarin. There are bound to be discrepancies.