From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/15] regulator: documentation - consumer interface
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:40:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080717194042.GA8585@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717183931.GB15178@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:39:31PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:18:25PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 06:10:13PM +0300, Paulius Zaleckas wrote:
> > > Liam Girdwood wrote:
> > > initialization
> > Not in the UK :)
...
> At the same time I checked other words which I thought ended in -ise.
> The dictionaries all said -ize and didn't list the -ise version.
> Therefore, I suspect -ise came into use in the late 1980s in the UK.
> Given my research, I'm intending to use the -ize version myself from
> now on, to support the English ideals. 8)
Heh. This fits the general pattern where American and English spellings
diverge - usually it's the English spelling which changed rather than
the American one. It's not normally so recent, though.
--
"You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-10 15:26 [PATCH 10/15] regulator: documentation - consumer interface Liam Girdwood
2008-07-11 15:10 ` Paulius Zaleckas
2008-07-11 19:18 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-17 18:39 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2008-07-17 19:40 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2008-07-18 13:52 ` Liam Girdwood
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080717194042.GA8585@sirena.org.uk \
--to=broonie@sirena.org.uk \
--cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux@arm.linux.org.uk \
--cc=paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.