Mixed Orthographic Conformance — Controlled Divergence Between Verb and Noun Spelling

This document specifies requirements for mixed orthographic conformance in professional and quasi-professional written communication.

It applies to documents intended for readerships spanning more than one orthographic convention.

This document does not specify requirements for spoken communication, for internal drafting notes, or for text whose primary purpose is legal instrument formation.

The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content constitutes requirements of this document.

For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document applies.

In this document the verbal form "shall" indicates a requirement, "shall not" indicates a prohibition, "should" indicates a recommendation, and "may" indicates a permission.

Terms and definitions given in SQLBL 1000 and the following apply.

3.1 orthographic divergence — deliberate use of more than one national spelling convention within a single document

3.2 controlled pair — specified verb and noun to which the divergence applies

Professional communication is evaluated by the receiving party under conditions of limited attention and limited context. Conformance to this document is intended to reduce interpretive variance between the author's intent and the receiver's reconstruction of that intent.

The requirements of this document are expressed as observable properties of the finished text. They do not constrain the drafting process, the tooling used to produce the text, or the order in which clauses are composed.

Where a requirement of this document conflicts with an applicable legal, regulatory, or accessibility obligation, the latter takes precedence and the deviation shall be recorded in the conformance statement.

5.1 A conforming document shall spell the verb as "prioritise" and the noun as "organization".

5.2 The forms "prioritize" and "organisation" shall not appear in a conforming document.

5.3 Inflected forms shall follow the controlled pair: "prioritised", "prioritising", "organizations", "organizational".

5.4 Quoted material shall retain its original orthography and shall not be assessed against 5.1.

A document conforms to SQLBL 1007:2026 where every requirement expressed with the verbal form "shall" in Clause 5 is satisfied and no requirement expressed as "shall not" is violated.

Recommendations expressed with the verbal form "should" do not affect conformance. Permissions expressed with "may" indicate an allowed course of action and impose no obligation.

Conformance claims shall take the form: "This document conforms to SQLBL 1007:2026, Edition 1." Partial conformance shall be declared by clause number, for example "conforms to SQLBL 1007:2026 Clauses 5.1 and 5.2 only."

Conformance may be assessed manually or by an automated checker. Where an automated checker is used, the assessment record shall identify the checker and the catalog release of SQLBL-1007 against which it was run.

The divergence is deliberate and should not be corrected by automated spelling normalisation. Style tooling should be configured with an explicit exception list.

Documents subject to a house style that mandates a single convention cannot conform to this document and should declare the conflict.

Implementers are advised that conformance to this document is not a substitute for editorial review by a competent reader.

EXAMPLE 1 — Conforming. The organization will prioritise remediation before the next organizational review.

EXAMPLE 1 — Non-conforming. The organisation will prioritize remediation before the next organisational review.

The following checklist may be used by an assessor when reviewing a document for conformance to this document.