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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: kern/27429: 'dependant' is a misspelling
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The following reply was made to PR kern/27429; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: "T. William Wells" <bill@twwells.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/27429: 'dependant' is a misspelling
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 00:10:46 +1000 (EST)

 On Fri, 18 May 2001, T. William Wells wrote:
 
 >  > >     While doing a boot -v, I noticed that 'dependent' was
 >  > >     misspelled 'dependant'.
 >  > >
 >  > http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=dependant
 >  
 >  1) "Dependant" is only used for the noun form. The bulk of uses
 >     are for the adjective form.
 >  
 >  2) "Dependant" is listed as an "also" variant which means that it
 >     is the less common form.
 
 The above URL says that this form is archaic.  The Oxford English
 Dictionary (a 20+ volume 1972 edition on dead trees) gives more details.
 This form started being archaic about 1800...
 
 >  3) Some of the examples were for "independant", which rather
 >     definitely is not a word.
 
 Similarly for "consistant", "existant", "inadvertant",  "persistant",
 etc.  There were only 37 lines with these in the whole src tree on
 1996/10/25 according to some saved grep output from that date.
 
 Bruce
 

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