Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:18:46 -0700 From: "Jesus R. Camou" <jcamou@cox.net> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/70920: [PATCH] fix couple typos && s/words/entities (handbook preface) Message-ID: <20040825141845.GB64419@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20040825144615.GH37255@submonkey.net> References: <200408250710.i7P7AZOY085264@freefall.freebsd.org> <20040825093530.GA22838@eborcom.com> <20040825134912.GD6962@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20040825144615.GH37255@submonkey.net>
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:46:16PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:49:12AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:35:30AM +0100, Tom Hukins wrote: > > > > > Me too, but I'm English and we write our documentation in American, so > > > we should consider 'travelled' a typo. > > > > This is one of the harder ones to nail down. Most of the American/English > > spelling issues at least have "one correct" American spelling but for > > this one both spellings seem to be "accepted" in American writing. > > > > I went through this a couple months ago with Ceri for "labeled" versus > > "labelled" - both seem to be tolerated widely. It's hard to decide > > on "one central authority" to help with determining what's right. > > > > That said, is there something we could as a project decide is close > > enough to being a central authority? Properties of such a thing would > > be easy accesibility (preferrably for free :-) on a global basis since > > we have lots of people all over the world contributing to the primary > > American-ese docs. Having something like that could help avoid a lot > > of bikesheds-to-be... :-) > > The Chicago Manual of Style covers which word to use in these cases, and > I will check it when I get home. > > Unfortunately it's not freely accessible, but Murray, Tom Rhodes and > myself all have a copy and I, at least, would be happy to look stuff up > in it. Please do. I'm pretty sure the correct US English spelling is `traveled'. I suggested this change because ``please use US English'' is stated in the FDP. -- Jesus R. Camou <jcamou@COX.net>
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