From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 14 1:42:14 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD3937B416; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 01:42:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id fAE9g0QO038117; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:42:00 +0100 (CET) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAE9fxx43404; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:41:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:41:59 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Greg Lehey Cc: Bruce Evans , 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: <20011114104159.A43390@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200111121715.fACHFn782828@harmony.village.org> <20011113234934.E3138-100000@delplex.bde.org> <20011114121703.H42750@monorchid.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011114121703.H42750@monorchid.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:17:03PM +1030 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:17:03PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. Lets call it a Winchester like in the old days and be done with it :) -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message