Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:46:16 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: docs/70920: [PATCH] fix couple typos && s/words/entities (handbook preface) Message-ID: <20040825144615.GH37255@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20040825134912.GD6962@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <200408250710.i7P7AZOY085264@freefall.freebsd.org> <20040825093530.GA22838@eborcom.com> <20040825134912.GD6962@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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--ZARJHfwaSJQLOEUz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:49:12AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:35:30AM +0100, Tom Hukins wrote: >=20 > > Me too, but I'm English and we write our documentation in American, so > > we should consider 'travelled' a typo. >=20 > This is one of the harder ones to nail down. Most of the American/English > spelling issues at least have "one correct" American spelling but for > this one both spellings seem to be "accepted" in American writing. >=20 > I went through this a couple months ago with Ceri for "labeled" versus > "labelled" - both seem to be tolerated widely. It's hard to decide > on "one central authority" to help with determining what's right. >=20 > That said, is there something we could as a project decide is close > enough to being a central authority? Properties of such a thing would > be easy accesibility (preferrably for free :-) on a global basis since > we have lots of people all over the world contributing to the primary > American-ese docs. Having something like that could help avoid a lot > of bikesheds-to-be... :-) The Chicago Manual of Style covers which word to use in these cases, and I will check it when I get home. Unfortunately it's not freely accessible, but Murray, Tom Rhodes and myself all have a copy and I, at least, would be happy to look stuff up in it. Ceri --=20 It is not tinfoil, it is my new skin. I am a robot. --ZARJHfwaSJQLOEUz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBLKY3ocfcwTS3JF8RAr9rAKC921NgcDGBZ1rrlrsdT34O9o5LEACfdZtn FJT0UqA3dt8lI21YoHkJuM0= =iHX7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZARJHfwaSJQLOEUz--
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