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Date:      Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:37:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
To:        Ulrich Spoerlein <q@galgenberg.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Small typo in /usr/share/examples/make.conf
Message-ID:  <20051025202143.O21639@lexi.siliconlandmark.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051024083541.GC1093@galgenberg.net>
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On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> On Mon, 24.10.2005 at 12:11:21 +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
>>
>> Being non-native speaker I am not sure this is a error.  There are
>> about a dozen "arguement"s in our src tree and google gives 2.8
>> millions.
>
> I see. My Dictionary of Contemporary English lists 'argument' only (no
> AE, BE distinction). There are 117 million google hits for 'argument'
> though.
>
> In /usr/src we have 35547 hits vs. 11 hits.
>
> No, I'm *not* saying all these should be fixed. We should probably just
> forget the matter.

I figured I would conjure up some patches, just in case someone wanted to 
commit them:

http://bling.properkernel.com/freebsd/argument.bind9.FAQ.diff
http://bling.properkernel.com/freebsd/argument.extras.c.diff
http://bling.properkernel.com/freebsd/argument.gcc.ChangeLog.10.diff
http://bling.properkernel.com/freebsd/argument.ipfilter.ipfw-howto.txt.diff
http://bling.properkernel.com/freebsd/argument.isccfg.c.diff
http://bling.properkernel.com/freebsd/argument.libmilter.smfi_stop.html.diff
http://bling.properkernel.com/freebsd/argument.libsm.io.html.diff
http://bling.properkernel.com/freebsd/argument.pr.c.diff
http://bling.properkernel.com/freebsd/argument.texinfo.NEWS.diff

I will try contacting the guilty parties for the instances that are in 
contrib/*.

Cheers,
Andy

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