From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>,
Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix overridable written with an extra 'e'
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:15:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32541b130908280815y78f95140re679c336fbd17443@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v63c8a69a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Hmph, I don't know. Googling "overrideable" suggests "Did you mean
> overridable?" which is enough clue for me.
Using a similar system, the Google hit count:
overrideable: 26,900
overridable: 339,000
overridden: 2,280,000
Which agrees with my intuition that you can get away with overridable,
but it's much more common to just use overridden.
"override" of course comes from "ride" (181,000,000). A horse can be
ridden (10,500,000) if it's ridable (82,500).
The bad news: rideable (201,000).
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ridable shows rideable as
the preferred spelling, but accepts both.
Have fun,
Avery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-28 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-28 3:18 [PATCH] Fix overridable written with an extra 'e' Nanako Shiraishi
2009-08-28 3:43 ` Todd Zullinger
2009-08-28 4:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-28 15:15 ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2009-08-28 15:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-30 17:58 ` Uri Okrent
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