From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC5397F37 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:59:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <5176AFEA.1040609@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:59:38 -0500 From: Rich Johnston MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] xfsprogs: manpage spelling fixes References: <5175BB8F.5090604@sandeen.net> <5175BC20.9010403@sandeen.net> <5176A639.5020703@sgi.com> <5176AC3E.30801@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <5176AC3E.30801@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Howorth Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On 04/23/2013 10:43 AM, Dave Howorth wrote: > Rich Johnston wrote: >>> diff --git a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 >> #rcj serialisation is misspelled, should be serialization. > > That depends on where you live, of course. It is derived from a Latin > root, I think, so should have an 's'. At least, where I live. Good point Dave, I did not think to look that one up online, my bad for trusting my spell checker and my locale. ;) Was unaware that that one is spelled two ways (darn British have to spell it differently, or is it those darn colonists don't know how to spell i.e. color colour) > > Do manpages have a policy as regards spelling? Not to my knowledge. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs