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Date:   Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:14:20 +0200
From:   Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To:     "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc:     util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Manual pages: various: reword "allow(s) to"
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:57:41AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> The wording "allow(s) to" is not grammatical English. Reword various
> pages to use a more correct form such "can be use to" or "allows
> the [noun] of".
> 
> Aklong the way, fix a few nearby wording errors in some pages.

Some of the "allow to" has been already fixed by Bjarni Ingi Gislason
(well, his fix is "allows <verb>ing" -- not sure what is better ;-).

The rest has been merged without change.

  Karel


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