Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 07:20:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/27429: 'dependant' is a misspelling Message-ID: <200105191420.f4JEK5M92737@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/27429; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: "T. William Wells" <bill@twwells.com> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/27429: 'dependant' is a misspelling Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 00:10:46 +1000 (EST) On Fri, 18 May 2001, T. William Wells wrote: > > > While doing a boot -v, I noticed that 'dependent' was > > > misspelled 'dependant'. > > > > > http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=dependant > > 1) "Dependant" is only used for the noun form. The bulk of uses > are for the adjective form. > > 2) "Dependant" is listed as an "also" variant which means that it > is the less common form. The above URL says that this form is archaic. The Oxford English Dictionary (a 20+ volume 1972 edition on dead trees) gives more details. This form started being archaic about 1800... > 3) Some of the examples were for "independant", which rather > definitely is not a word. Similarly for "consistant", "existant", "inadvertant", "persistant", etc. There were only 37 lines with these in the whole src tree on 1996/10/25 according to some saved grep output from that date. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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