From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>,
Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
mike@aiinc.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 07:35:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E6224D9.1090408@kegel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1046604117.12947.16.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk>
David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 04:16,
> 'Licenced' is not OK in the UK; it should be corrected to 'Licensed'.
> In the UK, 'licence' is a noun, 'license' is a verb -- just as with
> practice/practise and advice/advise etc. in both variants of the
> language.
Thanks for the info. BTW it looks like
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
is a good authority on whether a word is legal -- and now I understand
why it liked 'licence' but not 'licenced'.
> I think we also want to add:
>
> Decompressing=Uncompressing
I'd prefer to leave that one alone, it seems innocent enough for me.
> You should also refrain from 'correcting' the already-correct British
> spellings of 'modelled'.
OK. Any anti-british corrections are not by intent!
> It might also be worth adding a list of 'suspect' spellings -- which
> require human intervention. Such items might include 'indices=indexes'
> and 'erratum=errata' although you can't do it automatically because
> sometimes the right-hand side is actually correct.
Might be, but I'll leave that for another day. I'd rather focus
on correcting the uncontroversial and obvious howlers.
- Dan
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2003-02-27 6:59 [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker Dan Kegel
[not found] ` <1046330232.15763.97.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2003-03-01 5:38 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-01 14:11 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-01 17:13 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-01 18:54 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-01 19:18 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-01 21:20 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 3:45 ` jw schultz
2003-03-02 2:08 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 3:02 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 3:54 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-02 8:04 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 4:16 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-02 8:21 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 8:40 ` jw schultz
2003-03-02 11:21 ` David Woodhouse
2003-03-02 13:49 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-02 14:55 ` David Woodhouse
2003-03-02 22:44 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-02 22:59 ` John Bradford
2003-03-03 2:29 ` Dan Kegel
[not found] ` <3E62C0FF.1090700@kegel.com>
[not found] ` <1046661777.7527.518.camel@spc1.mesatop.com>
2003-03-03 5:36 ` Dan Kegel
[not found] ` <3E62E4C0.9070103@kegel.com>
[not found] ` <1046668274.7527.533.camel@spc1.mesatop.com>
2003-03-03 5:48 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 15:35 ` Dan Kegel [this message]
2003-03-02 8:09 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-02 8:13 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-02 3:29 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-01 19:30 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-01 20:33 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-01 21:25 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-01 21:25 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-02 9:15 ` John Bradford
2003-03-02 9:31 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-02 3:16 ` Horst von Brand
2003-03-01 15:57 shaheed
2003-03-01 16:35 ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-01 18:01 ` shaheed
2003-03-01 18:31 ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-05 18:10 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] <20030301160017$56fc@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-01 18:39 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-03-02 18:56 Jared Daniel J. Smith
2003-03-02 17:22 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-03-02 17:47 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-02 18:28 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-03-02 18:46 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-02 22:32 ` Alan Cox
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