linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/15] regulator: documentation

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:40:44 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...ena.org.uk>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@...tonika.lt>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/15] regulator: documentation - consumer interface

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:39:31PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:18:25PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 06:10:13PM +0300, Paulius Zaleckas wrote:
> > > Liam Girdwood wrote:

> > > initialization

> > Not in the UK :)

...

> At the same time I checked other words which I thought ended in -ise.
> The dictionaries all said -ize and didn't list the -ise version.

> Therefore, I suspect -ise came into use in the late 1980s in the UK.

> Given my research, I'm intending to use the -ize version myself from
> now on, to support the English ideals. 8)

Heh.  This fits the general pattern where American and English spellings
diverge - usually it's the English spelling which changed rather than
the American one.  It's not normally so recent, though.

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