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* [PATCH] man3: Fix spelling (British -> American)
@ 2026-01-06 10:30 Simon Essien
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From: Simon Essien @ 2026-01-06 10:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: alx; +Cc: linux-man, debian, champbreed1

Standardize 'initialise' variants to American English 'initialize' in regex.3 and pthread_key_create.3.

Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Simon Essien <champbreed1@gmail.com>
---
 man/man3/pthread_key_create.3 | 2 +-
 man/man3/regex.3              | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man3/pthread_key_create.3 b/man/man3/pthread_key_create.3
index e4fb5e321..ab993cd99 100644
--- a/man/man3/pthread_key_create.3
+++ b/man/man3/pthread_key_create.3
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ with automatic reclamation at thread exit:
 /* Key for the thread-specific buffer */
 static pthread_key_t buffer_key;
 \&
-/* Once-only initialisation of the key */
+/* Once-only initialization of the key */
 static pthread_once_t buffer_key_once = PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT;
 \&
 /* Allocate the thread-specific buffer */
diff --git a/man/man3/regex.3 b/man/man3/regex.3
index c9cc310dd..a901a937a 100644
--- a/man/man3/regex.3
+++ b/man/man3/regex.3
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ contains
 is used to match a null-terminated string
 against the compiled pattern buffer in
 .IR *preg ,
-which must have been initialised with
+which must have been initialized with
 .BR regcomp ().
 .I eflags
 is the
-- 
2.51.0


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