From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [81.2.110.250] (helo=lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Js3pz-0002gS-He for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 22:34:44 +0000 Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 23:26:16 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Trent Piepho Subject: Re: [PATCH] jffs2: Correct language use Message-ID: <20080502232616.4eed5b5d@core> In-Reply-To: References: <20080502143240.163e0819@core> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dwmw2@infradead.org List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2 May 2008 12:51:54 -0700 (PDT) Trent Piepho wrote: > On Fri, 2 May 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > The verb form of journal is "to journalise" not "to journal". Verified > > with the OED and querying the British Computer Society. The s/z is > > debatable but as the US prefers the s and the BCS prefers the s (and > > Dwmw2 is in Cambridge which favours 's' over the Oxford 'z' ;)) we'll use > > the s form. > > Google hits: > journalising filesystem 641 > journalizing filesystem 2,090 > journaling filesystem 104,000 > journalling filesystem 63,600 Google isn't a good guide as a lot of it is Linux material but a lot of people seem to really dislike journalising so I withdraw the patch. It's not *that* important ! Alan