Even Steven is written in English.
Every page on this site is in English, and the English page is the one that counts. Other editions are written from it, when a reader asks for one, and kept as close to it as translation allows.
English is the authoritative text.
Every edition starts from the English pages on this site. If a translated page and the English page ever disagree, the English page is correct.
That matters more here than on most sites, because the words that count most on this site are the ones a person signs. The covenant, the agreements and the forms go up in another language only when counsel has read them in that language and they say what the English says. Until then a translated page is a way to read, and the English page is the agreement. If you spot a mismatch, tell us and we will fix it.
English and French.
The two official languages of Canada. The company is in Alberta, and the record is kept in Canada.
The authoritative text.
This site, every page of it. The covenant, the agreements as they are written, the forms, and the plain-words pages.
Canadian French.
Written from the English pages, and read against them by counsel before it goes up, because the agreements have to say the same thing in both. It goes up here when it is done, the way the agreements do.
The same words, in every language they are read in.
An edition is a way to read the site in your own words. The agreement stays one agreement.
Written when a reader asks for one.
Operators come from everywhere, and the person a crew asks for by name does not always read English first.
An edition of the plain-words pages, the trades and the story of the instrument can be written from the English in any language a reader needs. The pages a person signs follow only when counsel has read them in that language. Every edition carries the same rule at the top of it: the English page is correct where they differ.
If your language is not here, write and say which one, and which pages you need first. A hand who comes on in another language is told, in that language, what the record holds before anything is switched on.
Do not see your language? Write to us.
Say which language, and which pages you would read first. We answer in plain words, and we would rather write an edition somebody asked for than one nobody reads.