Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:36:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> Cc: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 ng_pptpgre.4 Message-ID: <20020321123649.I99368@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020317100813.A891@schweikhardt.net> References: <200203161756.g2GHufn20522@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020317103642.E61310@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020317100813.A891@schweikhardt.net>
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On Sunday, 17 March 2002 at 10:08:13 +0100, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > Greg, > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 10:36:42AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > # On Saturday, 16 March 2002 at 9:56:41 -0800, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > # > schweikh 2002/03/16 09:56:41 PST > # > > # > Modified files: > # > share/man/man4 ng_pptpgre.4 > # > Log: > # > Typo: s/acknowlegement/acknowledgement/ > # > # Why? s/acknowledgement/acknowledgment/ > # > # ispell is your friend. > > Did you ask it? Yes, of course. I automatically run flyspell-mode in my mail messages. It flags acknowledgement and recommends acknowledgment. Because I did: > > schweikh@hal9000:~ $ ispell > @(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.05 07/23/01 > > word: acknowlegement > how about: acknowledgement > > Maybe we're using different dictionaries. Hmm. It does that for me, too. Seems that flyspell must be using a different dictionary. > And the ispell on freefall thinks it's wrong but doesn't even > display any corrections. So I trusted my ispell For some definition of ispell :-) > *and* what I found in my heavy English-German dictionary. Hmm, I wouldn't rely on that too much, especially as the word doesn't map well into German. My German-English dictionary spells it with an e too, but it can't find a translation for it which translates back again. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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