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Message-Id: <1159037251.1097.171.camel@mindpipe>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:47:30 -0400
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
Michael Opdenacker <michael-lists@...e-electrons.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18] [TRIVIAL] Spelling fixes in
Documentation/DocBook
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
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