From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 05:38:28 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: * CONTRIBUTE: Suggest American English.
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* CONTRIBUTE: Suggest American English.
---

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE
index d01ac8b07ed..78a2d515cd5 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTE
+++ b/CONTRIBUTE
@@ -195,7 +195,8 @@ them right the first time, so here are guidelines for formatting them:
   sentences starting with a capital and ending with a period (except
   the summary line should not end in a period).  See
   https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Comments.html
-  or run 'info "(standards)Comments"'.
+  or run 'info "(standards)Comments"'.  American English is preferred
+  in Emacs.
 
   They are preserved indefinitely, and have a reasonable chance of
   being read in the future, so it's better that they have good