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It's a minor difference, so I wouldn't get hung up on it. If it's an issue for a publisher, it's easy to fix.
I do a similar thing with the word "gray", because the street I grew up on had the word "grey" included in it, meaning that I always spell it wrong according to American English. Nobody aside from Microsoft Word's spellchecker has ever given me trouble-- or, I suspect, even noticed.

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