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Date:      Mon, 20 May 2002 10:00:00 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c
Message-ID:  <20020520100000.K54769@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020519134348.I67779@blossom.cjclark.org>
References:  <200205162121.g4GLLGQ43405@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516220511.A9DBE380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020517114010.A57127@regency.nsu.ru> <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020519134348.I67779@blossom.cjclark.org>

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On Sunday, 19 May 2002 at 13:43:48 -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:03:25PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
>> [Follow-up to -chat]
>> [This is all according to the books I have as well as my understanding,
>> hence my strong wording. :) ]
>>
>> -On [20020517 06:45], Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe@regency.nsu.ru) wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:05:11PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There is no such word as "filesystem".  "file system" is more correct.
>>>
>>> There is, actually...  My ispell doesn't object, at least, and neither
>>> does Lingvo (FWIH).
>>
>> No, there is not a word like filesystem.  It is a common misused word in
>> English.
>> Lingvo and ispell are wrong on this account.
>>
>>> Personally, I would consider this issue a matter of personal
>>> preference, and frankly I go for "filesystem" as a single word.
>>
>> It is not personal preference.  The compound noun rules are very
>> explicit on things like this.  A file system is a system of files.
>> People have just concatenated the two words to form a noun, but this
>> behaviour is actually more common in Dutch and German.

In German at any rate, and I suspect in Dutch as well, the rule is the
opposite: "Dateisystem" is correct, "Datei System" is wrong (but you
see this sort of thing from time to time.

> So when do we start the "web site"/"website" and "web page"/"webpage"
> debate?

Once we clarify the "book case" vs. "bookcase" debate.

Greg
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