From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jffs2: Correct language use
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 23:26:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080502232616.4eed5b5d@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805021233070.1128@t2.domain.actdsltmp>
On Fri, 2 May 2008 12:51:54 -0700 (PDT)
Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The verb form of journal is "to journalise" not "to journal". Verified
> > with the OED and querying the British Computer Society. The s/z is
> > debatable but as the US prefers the s and the BCS prefers the s (and
> > Dwmw2 is in Cambridge which favours 's' over the Oxford 'z' ;)) we'll use
> > the s form.
>
> Google hits:
> journalising filesystem 641
> journalizing filesystem 2,090
> journaling filesystem 104,000
> journalling filesystem 63,600
Google isn't a good guide as a lot of it is Linux material but a lot of
people seem to really dislike journalising so I withdraw the patch. It's
not *that* important !
Alan
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-02 13:32 [PATCH] jffs2: Correct language use Alan Cox
2008-05-02 19:51 ` Trent Piepho
2008-05-02 22:26 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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