From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] Fix typo in code and comments
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:07:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=3TfH8fN9Du9_QA+XbeYsFWAvqZg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DB7005E.5040006@mail.berlios.de>
On 26 April 2011 18:26, Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> wrote:
> The Oxford dictionary only accepts writable (even when I select
> american english). Same result with Merriam-Webster.
> Google suggests writable instead of writeable.
For what it's worth, the full Oxford English Dictionary has:
# writable, adj.
# Forms: Also writeable.
with quotes including:
# 1913 G. B. Shaw Let. 26 Mar. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. P.
# Campbell (1952) 104, I have written everything that is
# writeable: The rest must be viva voce.
-- PMM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-26 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-26 8:29 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix typo in code and comments Stefan Weil
2011-04-26 9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-04-26 17:04 ` Jan Marten Simons
2011-04-26 17:26 ` Stefan Weil
2011-04-26 20:58 ` Stefan Weil
2011-04-26 22:07 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2011-04-27 7:57 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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