From owner-cvs-all Tue Nov 13 17:47:12 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8092B37B416; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:47:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0217D7855F; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:17:03 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:17:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Bruce Evans Cc: Nik Clayton , Greg Lehey , Jimmy Olgeni , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha proc-alpha.sgml Message-ID: <20011114121703.H42750@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <200111121715.fACHFn782828@harmony.village.org> <20011113234934.E3138-100000@delplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011113234934.E3138-100000@delplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 13 November 2001 at 23:53:46 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > >> In message <20011112112631.A3318@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Nik Clayton writes: >>> Possibly. But now every committer knows that we prefer "hard disk" to >>> "harddisk". That wouldn't happen if the commit message was less >>> informative. >> >> Also, the fixes aren't really typos. Htis is a type. Harddisk is not >> a typo, but an alternative spelling of hard disk. > > Harddisk is a grammar error. No, it's a spelling error. In speech the two are indistinguishable. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key 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