Talk:Melee

I contend that this article should be entitled "mêlée", not "melee". Although I am an advocate of the "British spelling" policy, I think that this is intended to apply to British over American spellings of English words.

This is a French word, and should be spelt the French way. The article as it stands even concedes that is pronounced "may-lay". If we were to Anglicise it and spell it without the accents then surely we also pronounce it as if it were an English word (i.e. like "melly" or "meely").

I think that "mêlée" is the correct spelling of this word, and although it may often be written without the accents, in an encyclopaedia it should be correct in a formal sense.

However, I must provide a counter-argument by pointing out that the word is consistently spelt without the accents in the Melee section of the RuneScape manual.

So which should take priority? Anyone is welcome to commit to one side or the other. ;-) Many thanks.  Leevclarke 22:45, 5 October 2007 (UTC)