When I submitted an article to Language and Linguistics Compass, the editors changed all the spelling to British. Not because the journal is British; I think it was because I was submitting it with a British affiliation. Then they let me change it back to American spelling, although I had to do that myself.
On 29 Sep 2012, at 01:13, Miriam Meyerhoff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I don't think they do. At least, not inevitably. And, after all, why would they? What would be the point?Why do American publsihers do this - even in linguistics books?
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> Indeed. Or in linguistics journals. Let's hear it for JSociolinguistics, which (as far as I know) is the only journal that allows you to write with whatever English spelling system you natively use as long as you are internally consistent.
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