Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:24:48 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@NewGold.NET>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Spelling (was: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 adv.4 adw.4 ahb.4 bt.4 netgraph.4 ng_tty.4) Message-ID: <20010826012453.E44493E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <20010826104750.L21776@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on "Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:47:50 %2B0930"
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Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Friday, 24 August 2001 at 9:09:37 +0000, Joseph Mallett wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:45:37PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 14:58:38 -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > >>> dd 2001/08/23 14:58:38 PDT > >>> > >>> Modified files: > >>> share/man/man4 adv.4 adw.4 ahb.4 bt.4 netgraph.4 > >>> ng_tty.4 > >>> Log: > >>> Spelling police: queueing -> queuing > >>> > >>> PR: 29985 > >>> Submitted by: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@xMach.org> > >> > >> The PR is wrong on this count, both spellings are correct. > >> > >> Check www.m-w.com. > >> > > > > It's nice if you can keep manpages somewhat consistent, and ispell lists > > this as the correct spelling. > > I thought we had long ago agreed not to change correct spellings, even > if others might prefer a different correct spelling. That may be a good rule of thumb, but it looks bad when half the documents use one spelling, and another half use the other. The doc team (mostly murray and others from WindRiver working on the Handbook) seems to have taken up the practice of using whichever spelling appears the most and changing the rest. 'queueing' outnumbers 'queuing', at least in share/man4. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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