From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:32:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181120093254.675090f6@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1542625365-21886-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:02:45 +0000
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth:
>
> | Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more
> | formal, and "while" is the common word.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to
> | use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never
> | uses?
>
> dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is
> probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation.
>
> Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while".
So I've gone ahead and applied this, just because "whilst" does look a
little strange to some. I truly do not want this to be the beginning of a
pile of patches "fixing" British spellings and such, though; I really
don't think those need to be fixed.
Thanks,
jon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-20 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-19 11:02 [PATCH] Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" Will Deacon
2018-11-20 10:34 ` Jani Nikula
2018-11-20 10:46 ` Will Deacon
2018-11-20 16:32 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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