While both American and British English are valid, establishing a single standard improves consistency, readability, and maintainability of the codebase.

## Decision

The Gradle project adopts **American English** as the standard language variant for all code, comments, documentation, user-facing messages, and written communication.

### Examples

Use American English spelling, for example:

 * under the License.
 */
package org.apache.maven.cling.logging;

import org.apache.maven.logging.ProjectBuildLogAppender;
import org.codehaus.plexus.logging.Logger;

/**
 * Adapt an SLF4J logger to a Plexus logger, ignoring Plexus logger API parts that are not classical and
 * probably not really used.
 *
 * @since 3.1.0
 */
public class Slf4jLogger implements Logger {

 * domain. The author hereby disclaims copyright to this source code.
 */

/*
 * Source:
 * https://github.com/aappleby/smhasher/blob/master/src/MurmurHash3.cpp
 * (Modified to adapt to Guava coding conventions and to use the HashFunction interface)
 */

package com.google.common.hash;

import static com.google.common.hash.Hashing.GOOD_FAST_HASH_SEED;
import static java.lang.Byte.toUnsignedInt;

            assertThrows(NullPointerException.class, () -> new ShareEnumIterator(parent, null, null));
        }

        @Test
        @DisplayName("Null parent with non-empty iterator causes NullPointerException during adapt")
        void nullParent_throwsNPE() {
            List<FileEntry> entries = Collections.singletonList(entry("x", SmbConstants.TYPE_SHARE));

 * http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
 */

/*
 * Source:
 * http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jsr166/src/test/tck-jsr166e/AtomicDoubleTest.java?revision=1.8
 * (Modified to adapt to guava coding conventions)
 */

package com.google.common.util.concurrent;

import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
import static java.lang.Math.max;

 * http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
 */

/*
 * Source:
 * http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jsr166/src/test/tck-jsr166e/AtomicDoubleTest.java?revision=1.8
 * (Modified to adapt to guava coding conventions)
 */

package com.google.common.util.concurrent;

import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;

import com.google.common.annotations.GwtIncompatible;

 * domain, as explained at
 * http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
 */

/*
 * Source:
 * http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jsr166/src/jsr166e/extra/AtomicDouble.java?revision=1.13
 * (Modified to adapt to guava coding conventions and
 * to use AtomicLong instead of sun.misc.Unsafe)
 */

package com.google.common.util.concurrent;

import static java.lang.Double.doubleToRawLongBits;

 * http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
 */

/*
 * Source:
 * http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jsr166/src/jsr166e/extra/AtomicDoubleArray.java?revision=1.5
 * (Modified to adapt to guava coding conventions and
 * to use AtomicLongArray instead of sun.misc.Unsafe)
 */

package com.google.common.util.concurrent;

import static java.lang.Double.doubleToRawLongBits;

 * domain. The author hereby disclaims copyright to this source code.
 */

/*
 * Source:
 * http://code.google.com/p/smhasher/source/browse/trunk/MurmurHash3.cpp
 * (Modified to adapt to Guava coding conventions and to use the HashFunction interface)
 */

package com.google.common.hash;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkPositionIndexes;

 * CompletableFuture}. {@code FluentFuture} is targeted at people who use {@code ListenableFuture},
 * who can't use Java 8, or who want an API more focused than {@code CompletableFuture}. (If you
 * need to adapt between {@code CompletableFuture} and {@code ListenableFuture}, consider <a
 * href="https://github.com/lukas-krecan/future-converter">Future Converter</a>.)
 *
 * <h3>Extension</h3>
 *