linux-kernel - Re: [discuss] [PATCH] spelling fixes: arch/x86

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Date:	Sun, 13 May 2007 14:47:25 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	James Cloos <cloos@...loos.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, discuss@...-64.org,
	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>, trivial@...nel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [discuss] [PATCH] spelling fixes: arch/x86_64/

> Essentially all commonly used English words which start out with hyphens
> loose them over time.  It starts out with typos and progresses until the
> non-hyphenated form becomes the exclusively used form.  It does seem that
> re-enable → reenable is occurring, based on those search hits.

Re-enable is definitely "more correct".

> Andi> Similar with upto.
> 
> I’ve a *much* harder time agreeing with «upto» in place of «up to».
> That should be treated as a typo in need of fixing.

The dictionary agrees.

Alan
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