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Date:      Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:10:18 +0100 (BST)
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        gavin@ury.york.ac.uk
Subject:   bin/65626: Spelling mistakes in fortune file
Message-ID:  <200404161510.i3GFAIrb011231@buffy.york.ac.uk>
Resent-Message-ID: <200404161520.i3GFKLbP094361@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         65626
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Spelling mistakes in fortune file
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 16 08:20:20 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gavin Atkinson
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD buffy.york.ac.uk 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #7: Tue Apr 13 19:45:13 BST 2004 root@buffy.york.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

>Description:
	There are a couple of miscapitalisations and a spelling mistake in the fortunes datfile.
>How-To-Repeat:
	fortune -m ukelele
	fortune -m cummings
>Fix:

	(Fix also at http://www.devrandom.co.uk/freebsd/fortune.diff)


--- games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes.old	Mon Mar 22 05:02:01 2004
+++ games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes	Tue Apr 13 22:11:18 2004
@@ -3272,7 +3272,7 @@
 Bagdikian's Observation:
 	Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American
 newspaper is like trying to play Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" on a
-ukelele.
+ukulele.
 %
 Baker's First Law of Federal Geometry:
 	A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides
@@ -8023,9 +8023,9 @@
 "I'm in Pittsburgh.  Why am I here?"
 		-- Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate
 %
-i'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be
+I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be
 living apart.
-		-- e. e. cummings
+		-- E. E. Cummings
 %
 I'm N-ary the tree, I am,
 N-ary the tree, I am, I am.


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