Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:15:44 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org>, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/70920: [PATCH] fix couple typos && s/words/entities (handbook preface) Message-ID: <20040825181544.GJ37255@submonkey.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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--Mjqg7Yu+0hL22rav Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: > >=20 > > > Me too, but I'm English and we write our documentation in American, so > > > we should consider 'travelled' a typo. > >=20 > > This is one of the harder ones to nail down. Most of the American/Engl= ish > > spelling issues at least have "one correct" American spelling but for > > this one both spellings seem to be "accepted" in American writing. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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... :-) >=20 > The Chicago Manual of Style covers which word to use in these cases, and > I will check it when I get home. It seems that I'm mistaken; there is no such list in my CMS. I was thinking of Scriptorium: http://www.scriptorium.com/Standards/probhome.html#HEADING27 Also, "traveled" is the canonical term according to Webster's, so we should go with that. Ceri --=20 It is not tinfoil, it is my new skin. I am a robot. --Mjqg7Yu+0hL22rav Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBLNdQocfcwTS3JF8RAp0+AKCqK+31HcrzjEO3f4hYpHR9QCwYLwCeI7OW 1lCrfP/to3M0GyHuxSICONs= =cCPw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Mjqg7Yu+0hL22rav--
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