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From: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
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Subject: Re: FDP and compound words
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Hi,

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:39:52 +0200
Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 06:00:01PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> > The FDP word list at 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style-word-list.html 
> > specifies the formats for several words that are often used as a
> > single compound word in our documentation.  For example:
> > 
> > file system
> > disk label
> > mail server
> > name server
> > web server
> > 
> > Actually, I think the single-word versions of at least the first
> > two are more correct.  Some searching found this: 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_noun_and_adjective
> > 
the list shows the correct spelling.

> > There's an excellent example: "darkroom".  A darkroom is a
> > different thing than a dark room.

Aren't we lucky that Free BSD and FreeBSD mean the same.

Erich