From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 10 21:48:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12014 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:48:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11940 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:48:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.0.Beta3/8.9.0.Beta3) with SMTP id AAA14625; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:47:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:47:11 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: John Fieber cc: John Birrell , chadf@bookcase.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Misspelling in lib/libutil/login_cap.3 [w/ patch] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, John Fieber wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, John Birrell wrote: > > > Chad M. Fraleigh wrote: > > > > > > "authorisation" should be "authorization". > > > > In my _*English*_ dictionary, either is acceptable. > > Citation please? > > Not found in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed), nor any of > the American dictionaries I have on hand (American Heritage, > Webster). You're comparing apples to oranges, guys. The languages spoken, and written by the Americans and the British, while sharing a common origin, are not the same. No matter how you colo[u]r them. Were the British as litigious as the Americans they'd probably try to sue us under copyright or trademark laws for calling our language English. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message