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From: Rich Johnston <rjohnston@sgi.com>
To: Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] xfsprogs: manpage spelling fixes
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:59:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5176AFEA.1040609@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5176AC3E.30801@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>

On 04/23/2013 10:43 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Rich Johnston wrote:
>>> diff --git a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
>> #rcj serialisation is misspelled, should be serialization.
>
> That depends on where you live, of course. It is derived from a Latin
> root, I think, so should have an 's'. At least, where I live.
Good point Dave, I did not think to look that one up online, my bad for 
trusting my spell checker and my locale. ;)
Was unaware that that one is spelled two ways (darn British have to 
spell it differently, or is it those darn colonists don't know how to 
spell i.e. color colour)

>
> Do manpages have a policy as regards spelling?
Not to my knowledge.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-23 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-22 22:37 [PATCH 0/3] xfsprogs: manpage & usage string fixups Eric Sandeen
2013-04-22 22:39 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfsprogs: manpage spelling fixes Eric Sandeen
2013-04-23 15:18   ` Rich Johnston
2013-04-23 15:43     ` Dave Howorth
2013-04-23 15:59       ` Rich Johnston [this message]
2013-04-23 16:20         ` Stefan Ring
2013-04-23 19:36     ` Eric Sandeen
2013-04-25 14:12   ` [PATCH 1/3 V2] " Eric Sandeen
2013-04-25 14:59     ` Rich Johnston
2013-04-25 20:43     ` Rich Johnston
2013-04-22 22:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfsprogs: Fix manpages for missing or incorrect options Eric Sandeen
2013-04-23 18:35   ` Rich Johnston
2013-04-23 19:36     ` Eric Sandeen
2013-04-23 19:45       ` Rich Johnston
2013-04-25 15:03   ` [PATCH 2/3 V2] " Eric Sandeen
2013-04-25 15:26     ` Rich Johnston
2013-04-25 15:52     ` Rich Johnston
2013-04-22 22:42 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfsprogs: Fix up usage() errors and omissions Eric Sandeen
2013-04-23 19:37   ` Rich Johnston
2013-04-25 15:16   ` [PATCH 3/3 V2] " Eric Sandeen
2013-04-25 16:13     ` Rich Johnston
2013-04-25 16:15     ` Rich Johnston

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