refactor: use american english spelling - #235
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Convert British spellings to American English across hand-written source, comments, user-facing strings, docs and templates (owner rule, 2026-09-18). Identifiers renamed: test function names, the dual-control status constant (_CANCELED), tools/real_corpus.py's CORPUS_LICENSE, and the i18n key rec_catalog_heading. The "Catalog metadata" and "honor-system" msgids were re-extracted into messages.pot, updated in every .po, and the .mo files recompiled. docs/accessibility/ACR.md follows acr_gen and stays byte-identical. Kept on purpose: the persisted "cancelled" proposal status, the "licence" key of the committed real-corpus evidence JSON, GitHub's `cancelled` conclusion literal, accepted ADRs (immutable per ADR 0001), the real-corpus evidence data, aria-labelledby, and non-English translations.
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Summary
Converts British spellings to American English across ledger's hand-written source, comments, user-facing strings, docs and templates, per the owner rule of 2026-09-18 ("all apps in my portfolio should use american english everywhere, both in code and in user-facing text").
dualcontrol._CANCELLED→_CANCELED,tools/real_corpus.CORPUS_LICENCE→CORPUS_LICENSE, the i18n keyrec_catalogue_heading→rec_catalog_heading, and some local variables.messages.potwas re-extracted, the msgid was updated in all four.pofiles (en msgstr too), and the.mofiles were recompiled (make i18nG13 passes). The es/fr/ar translations are unchanged.docs/accessibility/ACR.mdchanged along withledger.acr_gen, andmake acr-checkconfirms the two are still byte-identical.Kept British spellings, with reasons (78, plus 27
aria-labelledby)docs/adr/*docs/data/real-corpus/*.jsoncalibre 0.8.57(a proper noun)."licence"key intools/real_corpus.py+tests/test_real_corpus_evidence.pycheck_evidence. The key has a one-line comment."cancelled"proposal status (dualcontrol.pyvalue + docstring, 2 test asserts)_CANCELED, the stored value stays the same, and there is a one-line comment.`cancelled`in workflow comments / CHANGELOGdocs/MULTIYEAR-PLAN.md"not yet labelled"aria-labelledbymsgstrMigrations/aliases: none needed. The only persisted identifiers ("cancelled" and "licence") keep their stored spelling.
Verification
make verifypassed locally: lint, mypy, 2035 tests, i18n (POT current, MO current, parity), accessibility, acr-check, audit, claims, hygiene, workflow-lint. On this machineosv,semgrepandsecret-scandefer to CI.Prepared with AI assistance; reviewed before submission.