Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 10:58:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, obrien@NUXI.com Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/dict web2 Message-ID: <19981225105842.L12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpvhj1xmoe.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 10:19:45PM %2B0100 References: <199812240107.RAA03551@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpn24dzutg.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19981224084428.D2039@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpvhj1xmoe.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Thursday, 24 December 1998 at 22:19:45 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> writes: >>> Um, you may be correct (in fact I'd tend to think "corelate" is a >>> *mis*spelling), but I don't think we should go about and edit the >>> dictionary like that, at least not as long as the README says what it >>> does. >> When I am forced to spell check my papers on Solaris because FreeBSD >> allows what my Quals committee deems a misspelling (and all current >> dictionaries I could find in my lab), I will "fix" FreeBSD. > > The point is that you're not fixing FreeBSD, you're fixing Webster's > Second International. The *least* you can do is add a note to > /usr/share/dict/README to the effect that a few words have been > removed to reflect the evolution of the language, or something. If > someone on the FreeBSD team makes an invalid "correction" to the > dictionary we'll be distributing an erroneous dictionary and > attributing the mistakes to Webster. Agreed. We're not maintaining a historical document, we're maintaining a list of current American spellings. The README needs to state this. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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