Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:44:38 -0400 From: Len Zettel <zettel@acm.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Subject: Re: docs/70920: [PATCH] fix couple typos && s/words/entities (handbook preface) Message-ID: <200408251144.38454.zettel@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <20040825141845.GB64419@cox.net> References: <200408250710.i7P7AZOY085264@freefall.freebsd.org> <20040825144615.GH37255@submonkey.net> <20040825141845.GB64419@cox.net>
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On Wednesday 25 August 2004 10:18 am, Jesus R. Camou wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:46:16PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > 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: > > > > Me too, but I'm English and we write our documentation in American, > > > > so we should consider 'travelled' a typo. > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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. > > Please do. I'm pretty sure the correct US English spelling is `traveled'. > I suggested this change because ``please use US English'' is stated in the > FDP. Well, http://www.bartleby.com/61/ which says it is =20 The American Heritage=AE Dictionary of the English Language:=20 =46ourth Edition. 2000. says VERB: Inflected forms: trav=B7eled or trav=B7elled, trav=B7el=B7ing or trav=B7el= =B7ling, trav=B7els or trav=B7els Note "traveled" comes first. This is certainly the form this United States of America native would expect. I note this is a reasonably authoritative souce, and is available on line. -LenZ-
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