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The full list of transformations:

  'colour'       => 'color',
  'grey'         => 'gray',
  '!please'      => '!important',
  'transparency' => 'opacity',
  'centre'       => 'center',
  'plump'        => 'bold',
  'photograph'   => 'image',
  'capitalise'   => 'capitalize'

In case someone actually tries to use this in production (lol), I'm wouldn't trust the transformation to this search/replace regex:

   '/(?:(?:\s|\t)*|\;)([\w-]*):/i'

You know, considering CSS is context-free 'n all.

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Here's that regex again, except actually readable:

    (\s*|;)[\w-]*:

> '/(?:(?:\s|\t)|\;)([\w-]):/i'

my head just exploded. I imagine you could sneak a backdoor into one of these if it was long enough :)

  'photograph'   => 'image',

If your $LANG is en-uk do you really refer to all graphics as photographs?

If your $LANG is en-us does your sense of humour go amiss?

It was a legitimate question. The following are funny, legitimate differences between en-uk/en-us and to my knowledge did not represent any change in semantic value:

  'colour'       => 'color',
  'centre'       => 'center',
  'capitalise'   => 'capitalize'
  'grey'         => 'gray',   # less definitive than others

Why does being curious about en-uk/en-us language differences lead you to believe that I do not have a sense of humor?

Sorry, I thought you were being coy. To answer your question, we don't refer to all images as photographs. I think this was a joke-within-a-joke on the part of the author.

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