From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Michael Opdenacker <michael-lists@free-electrons.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18] [TRIVIAL] Spelling fixes in Documentation/DocBook
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:47:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159037251.1097.171.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159036439.24527.935.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 19:33 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 14:31 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 10:04 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > "Cooperate" has previously been hyphenated
> > > (co-operate) or spelled with a diaeresis over the second 'o'.
> > > They are now lost.
> >
> > Not completely - the New Yorker magazine still spells these with a
> > diaresis ;-)
>
> And indede their is only a sertain extent too witch we wont two emulate
> the lowest common denomminator.
>
That being said , until this thread I've never seen "role" spelled any
other way than "role", and I read a lot.
What does OED say?
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-23 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-21 21:18 [PATCH 2.6.18] [TRIVIAL] Spelling fixes in Documentation/DocBook Michael Opdenacker
2006-09-21 22:07 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-09-23 18:55 ` Michael Opdenacker
2006-09-22 16:34 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-22 16:36 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-09-22 19:10 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-23 19:07 ` Michael Opdenacker
2006-09-23 21:02 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-23 9:51 ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-23 17:04 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-09-23 18:31 ` Lee Revell
2006-09-23 18:33 ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-23 18:47 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-09-23 19:32 ` Alan Cox
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