From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
akpm@osdl.org, Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix typos in doc and comments (1)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:17:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161091046.24237.159.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061016160738.2199bbcb.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Ar Llu, 2006-10-16 am 16:07 -0700, ysgrifennodd Randy Dunlap:
> > Changes persistant -> persistent. www.dictionary.com does not know
> > persistant (with an A), but should it be one of those things you can
> > spell in more than one correct way, let me know.
>
> I agree with it, but IIRC Alan said it could be either way.
OED has both but says of the -ance version "older". Seems fine to me
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-17 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-16 22:50 [PATCH] Fix typos in doc and comments (1) Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-16 23:00 ` [PATCH] Fix typos in doc and comments (2) Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-16 23:07 ` [PATCH] Fix typos in doc and comments (1) Randy Dunlap
2006-10-17 5:22 ` Matt LaPlante
2006-10-17 13:17 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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