From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] CodingGuidelines: typofix Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 11:31:10 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1398894312-30763-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> <1398894312-30763-2-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> <87tx99zj31.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20140501212714.GB14441@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Kastrup , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 02 20:31:23 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WgIF0-0005rZ-QT for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2014 20:31:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752813AbaEBSbR (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2014 14:31:17 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:56117 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752794AbaEBSbQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2014 14:31:16 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40BC81139D; Fri, 2 May 2014 14:31:16 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=WpLKT3mBdcRp6EneUcHdx6eKdok=; b=QWT3PO tYcnTUS20qBE2Mkl5+ONxpsAm++wZfRuXi+COpolqO9E5P2GWFn/kRW0f8n4gEsy 9KrA+JjqenJHWKHVMD+j9r8E43LRkRsL+OK6PrJ92KwBLt+87sBOlP1M88DmKv5a BVA5n2SPO1yPQlcGws1BWIpfyR1tiFnD/EoXQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=JWv0bvheiV419Qz8XQt6LPxpzbkEe6Lc tUf8lyoO9S0GohiMnB0rA1glSj0iGqgP3hysBtgjs+or7nls2W1ni3JlNCaeB95f /zv8uNjKMEbqJIxVoMIk3WH7UjDsNGD8Ubq/Wc7b3Cg8QovnCyHn+nfeFi8xyt2r CDyPE4OBRuU= Received: from pb-smtp0.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33CAD1139C; Fri, 2 May 2014 14:31:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8297711398; Fri, 2 May 2014 14:31:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20140501212714.GB14441@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 1 May 2014 17:27:14 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: F02089CC-D227-11E3-8661-9CEB01674E00-77302942!pb-smtp0.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:51:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> > If you want to fix something here, do s/judgement/judgment/ instead. >> >> That too. > > FWIW, neither is outright wrong; it is an America/British variation, and > apparently dictionaries disagree on which is preferred. My reading of various "grammar" sites was that even though variation exists[*1*], the form without 'e' is the traditionally preferred form, and that is why I said "That too". But let's follow this one: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=judgement%20call%2C%20judgment%20call&cmpt=q which seems to say that with 'e' is more common. [Footnote] *1* To Americans, the form with 'e' is abomination. Wikipedia claims that (1) without 'e' is in legal and (2) with 'e' in other contexts in British (this particular one is a non-legal use), and (3) both are equally acceptable in non-legal contexts in Austraria and Canada.