[insightcheck]

> "he will do things like deliberately spell some words British and others American to make it harder for peers to figure out who the paper is from."

This is a good initiative, but a catch is that if he's the only person deliberately spelling some words British and others American, the spelling choice becomes a unique identifier.

Though, it could work as long as no one within the group knows who is using the varied spelling.

[sdenton4]

This happens often with coauthored papers as well, so not a total giveaway, necessarily.