From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 11 15:11:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18507 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 15:11:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18500 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 15:11:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.4) with UUCP id XAA11595; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 23:10:34 +0100 (BST) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 23:05:39 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <19980411143046.35436@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 23:00:30 +0100 To: John Fieber , David Dawes From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Misspelling in lib/libutil/login_cap.3 [w/ patch] Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:40 am +0100 11/4/98, John Fieber wrote: >OED 2nd edition is 1989, suggesting that the "s" form may be out >of fashion, but I would really expect that to be noted if it were >the case rather than just omitting it. After all, word history >is one of the greatest strengths of the OED. > >Puzzling.... Current edition of Chambers (used here as reference by all the crosswords, Scrabble etc) gives both with s preferred; I guess this is the best reference to current usage in the UK. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message