From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:33:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:32:58 -0400 Received: from www.topmail.de ([212.255.16.226]:3227 "HELO www.topmail.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:32:50 -0400 Message-ID: <000001c0d24b$9864d8e0$de00a8c0@homeip.net> From: "mirabilos" To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: deregister? Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:39:28 -0000 Organization: eccesys.net Linux development MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > >>Not to mention in various comments and documentation. Deregister, > >>according to www.m-w.com (and many other dictionaries), is not a word. > >>Is there some sort of historical significance to this being used, in > >>place of "unregister"? > At 10:03 PM -0400 2001-04-29, Andres Salomon wrote: > >Americans can spell? Since when? > > OED 2nd Ed: > > deregister. v. trans. To remove from a register. Hence > deregistration. (first citation 1925) > > unregistered. ppl. a. Not entered in a register; unrecorded. (first > citation 1604) > > The OED has no entry for "unregister". My DCE here has no opposite word, just register, but because register comes from Latin registrare, and due to the DCE's explanation of how to build opposite words, I'd rather prefer deregister over disregister over unregister. A message of love and openness: translate linux into Latin! It has strict grammar, no such problems, and a single person on top - the pope, actually. We could replace his function by Linus ;-) or Alan... dunno -mirabilos