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GHC 8.2 does not accept British {-# LANGUAGE GeneralisedNewtypeDeriving #-} spelling

The GHC docs for GeneralisedNewtypeDeriving at (https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/glasgow_exts.html#generalised-derived-instances-for-newtypes) suggest British spelling should be accepted, and indeed it's the preferred spelling in the docs. However GHC 8.2 throws an error. I haven't tested this against HEAD so if it's fixed there please feel free to close.

I know this is a bit picky but it's caught me out a few times and I couldn't see it previously reported (I may have missed it though).

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Version 8.2.2
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
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