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@@ -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