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Replace american spelling with britih variants

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......@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ at the end of the 17\textsuperscript{th} century and attacked in the
*Dictionnaire de Trevoux*, as utterly "burlesque" ("parodic"). The entry for
"Encyclopédie" remained unchanged in the four editons issued between 1721 and
1752, mocking the use of the word and discouraging his readers to pursue it. In
that intent, he quotes a poem from Pibrac encouraging people to specialize in
that intent, he quotes a poem from Pibrac encouraging people to specialise in
only one discipline lest they should not reach perfection, based on an
argumentation that resembles the saying "Jack of all trades, master of none". It
is all the more interesting that the definition remains unaltered until 1752,
......@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ against the philosophers of the Enlightenment.
The attacks do not remain ignored by Diderot who starts the very definition of
the word "Encyclopédie" in the *Encyclopédie* itself by a strong rebuttal. He
directly dismisses the concerns expressed in the *Dictionnaire de Trevoux* as
mere self-doubt that their authors shouldn't generalize to mankind, then leaves
mere self-doubt that their authors shouldn't generalise to mankind, then leaves
the main point to a latin quote by chancelor Bacon, who argues that a
collaborative work can achieve much more than any talented man could: what could
possibly not be within reach of a single man, within a single lifetime may be
......@@ -121,10 +121,10 @@ encyclopedias became a fertile subgenre in themselves which kept evolving over
the following centuries. One of offsprings of the *Encyclopédie* from the
19\textsuperscript{th} century is entitled *La Grande Encyclopédie, Inventaire
raisonné des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts par une Société de savants et de
gens de lettres* and was published between 1885 and 1902 by an organized team of
gens de lettres* and was published between 1885 and 1902 by an organised team of
over two hundred specialists divided into eleven sections. The aim of
[CollEx-Persée project DISCO-LGE](https://www.collexpersee.eu/projet/disco-lge/)
was to digitize and make *La Grande Encyclopédie* available to the scientific
was to digitise and make *La Grande Encyclopédie* available to the scientific
community as well as the general public. A previous version was partially
available on
[Gallica](https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&collapsing=disabled&query=%28dc.title%20all%20%22La%20Grande%20encyclop%C3%A9die%22%29%20and%20dc.relation%20all%20%22cb377013071%22&rk=42918;4#)
......@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ article in general, showing that the purpose of `<entry/>` is not to contain an
`<entryFree/>` or `<superEntry/>`. Hence, not only the semantics conveyed by the
documentation but also the structure of the elements graph evidence `<entry/>`
as the natural top-most element for an article. This somewhat contrived example
hopes to further demonstrate the application of a graph-centered approach to
hopes to further demonstrate the application of a graph-centred approach to
understand the inner workings of the XML-TEI schema.
### Information about the headword itself
......@@ -351,12 +351,12 @@ noticeable differences. It is difficult to make a precise list because the
editorial choices may vary greatly between encyclopedias but we discuss some of
the most obvious.
### Organized knowledge
### Organised knowledge
The first immediately visible feature that sets encyclopedias apart from
dictionaris can be found in the *Encyclopédie* as well in *La Grande
Encyclopédie* is the presence of subject indicators at the begining of articles
right after the headword which organize them into a domain classification
right after the headword which organise them into a domain classification
system. Those generally cover a broad range of subjects from scientific
disciplines to litterature, and extending to political subjects and law.
......@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ article, "Cathète" from tome 9.
Each article is represented by a `<div/>`. We suggest setting an `xml:id`
attribute on it with as value the — unique, or made so by suffixing a number
representing its rank among the various occurrences, even when there's only one
for the sake of regularity — head word of the entry, normalized to lowercase,
for the sake of regularity — head word of the entry, normalised to lowercase,
stripping spaces and replacing all non-alphanumerical characters by a dash `'-'`
to avoid issues with the XML encoding.
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