Various, minor, grammar changes and fixes #655

AoifeHughes · 2025-10-03T10:23:52Z

This PR improves the documentation quality with various grammar and spelling fixes.

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British English spelling: Standardized spelling throughout (e.g., "optimise" instead of "optimize")
Grammar corrections: Fixed article usage (a/an), removed duplicate words, and improved sentence structure
Enhanced documentation links: Added more Wikipedia and reference links for better context
Footer fix: Corrected license link from LICENCE to LICENSE

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41 files across tutorials, usage guides, and developer documentation have been updated for consistency and clarity.

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This PR focuses on standardizing spelling conventions throughout the documentation, specifically converting American English spellings to British English variants. The changes are primarily in comments and documentation text rather than functional code.

Converts American spellings to British equivalents (e.g., "optimization" → "optimisation", "visualization" → "visualisation")
Removes duplicate words and fixes minor grammatical issues
Updates package name references for consistency

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usage/tracking-extra-quantities/index.qmd	Changes "parameterization" to "parameterisation"
usage/sampler-visualisation/index.qmd	Removes duplicate "and" in HMC description
usage/mode-estimation/index.qmd	Updates "Optimization.jl" to "Optimisation.jl" references
usage/external-samplers/index.qmd	Changes "optimization" to "optimisation" and "initialization" to "initialisation"
usage/automatic-differentiation/index.qmd	Changes "optimization" to "optimisation"
tutorials/variational-inference/index.qmd	Multiple spelling changes and function renaming for consistency
tutorials/probabilistic-pca/index.qmd	Changes "visualization" to "visualisation" and removes duplicate "the"
tutorials/multinomial-logistic-regression/index.qmd	Changes "normalizing" to "normalising" and "Standardize" to "Standardise"
tutorials/bayesian-logistic-regression/index.qmd	Changes "normalizing" to "normalising"
tutorials/bayesian-linear-regression/index.qmd	Changes "visualization" to "visualisation" and "normalizing" to "normalising"
tutorials/bayesian-differential-equations/index.qmd	Changes "optimization" to "optimisation"
faq/index.qmd	Changes "vectorized" to "vectorised"
developers/inference/variational-inference/index.qmd	Changes "maximize" to "maximise" and "parameterization" to "parameterisation"
developers/inference/abstractmcmc-interface/index.qmd	Changes "parameterization" to "parameterisation"
core-functionality/index.qmd	Changes "Initialize" to "Initialise" and "visualization" to "visualisation"
README.md	Changes "License" to "Licence" and removes line break

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Copilot · 2025-10-03T10:24:31Z

README.md


-   If there isn't a suitably up-to-date `_freeze` folder in the releases, you can generate a new one by [triggering a run for the `create_release.yml` workflow](https://github.com/TuringLang/docs/actions/workflows/create_release.yml).
-   (You will need to have the appropriate permissions; please create an issue if you need help with this.)
+   If there isn't a suitably up-to-date `_freeze` folder in the releases, you can generate a new one by [triggering a run for the `create_release.yml` workflow](https://github.com/TuringLang/docs/actions/workflows/create_release.yml) (You will need to have the appropriate permissions; please create an issue if you need help with this).


The formatting change removes appropriate line breaks and creates an overly long line that reduces readability.

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If there isn't a suitably up-to-date `_freeze` folder in the releases, you can generate a new one by [triggering a run for the `create_release.yml` workflow](https://github.com/TuringLang/docs/actions/workflows/create_release.yml) (You will need to have the appropriate permissions; please create an issue if you need help with this).

If there isn't a suitably up-to-date `_freeze` folder in the releases, you can generate a new one

by [triggering a run for the `create_release.yml` workflow](https://github.com/TuringLang/docs/actions/workflows/create_release.yml)

(You will need to have the appropriate permissions; please create an issue if you need help with this).

Copilot · 2025-10-03T10:24:32Z

README.md

+## Licence

-This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.
+This project is licensed under the MIT Licence - see the [Licence](Licence) file for details.


The link reference 'Licence' appears to be incorrect. It should likely reference 'LICENSE' (the actual filename) rather than 'Licence'.

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This project is licensed under the MIT Licence - see the [Licence](Licence) file for details.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [License](LICENSE) file for details.

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tutorials/probabilistic-pca/index.qmd:1

Corrected spelling of 'coordinats' to 'coordinates'.

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AoifeHughes added 2 commits October 3, 2025 11:06

British Eng "z" -> "s"

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misc grammar and double word fixes

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AoifeHughes added 2 commits October 3, 2025 11:48

an fixes

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a million little grammar rewrites

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AoifeHughes added 2 commits October 6, 2025 10:07

more British-isms and grammar changes

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Grammar, plus added back and more links (mostly wiki)

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reluctantly changing license to match original file

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gross, the library itself uses American spelling.

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Fix license link in footer from 'LICENCE' to 'LICENSE'

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Review and merge grammar and clarity improvements from PR #655 #657

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	This project is licensed under the MIT Licence - see the [Licence](Licence) file for details.
	This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [License](LICENSE) file for details.

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