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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: docs/36462: dev.handbook grammar nit "try and"
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The following reply was made to PR docs/36462; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/36462: dev.handbook grammar nit "try and"
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:18:31 +0200 (EET)

 On 2002-03-28 20:51, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
 > In section "2.5.2 Example of using make" of
 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/x663.html
 > "try and explain" should be "try to explain".
 
 Good catch.  There are many places that use " try and" as you can see from the
 following.  Is "try and" an acceptable thing in English syntax, or should we go
 through the docs and eliminate it?
 
     $ cd a/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1
     $ find . -name \*sgml | xargs grep ' try and' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u
     ./books/fdp-primer/sgml-primer/chapter.sgml
     ./books/fdp-primer/structure/chapter.sgml
     ./books/fdp-primer/translations/chapter.sgml
     ./books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
     ./books/handbook/contrib/chapter.sgml
     ./books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml
     ./books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml
     ./books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml
     ./books/handbook/policies/chapter.sgml
     ./developers-handbook/policies/chapter.sgml
     ./developers-handbook/tools/chapter.sgml
     ./faq/book.sgml
 
 Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
 keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
 

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