From: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: javaman <javaman@katamail.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.x, 2.4.x ...] very small
Date: 21 Feb 2003 10:03:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1045847019.6615.114.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030221153001.GF22285@codemonkey.org.uk>
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 08:30, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:25:17PM +0100, javaman wrote:
> > A very small patch (my first patch :-) for Documentation/spinlocks.txt:
> > it replace "IFF" with "IF" ;-)
>
> IFF is "If and only if"
>
> I think its horrible too, but unfortunatly, its real..
> http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=IFF
>
> Dave
And you didn't like youu for "you and only you" too!
For the benefit of any of you trying your hand at fixing typos and
spelling, please make sure you're not "fixing" accepted British or
Canadian spelling. See
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm
Many others can be found by Googling. Hmm, my spelling checker doesn't
like googling yet.
Steven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-21 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-21 14:25 javaman
2003-02-21 15:10 ` Murray J. Root
2003-02-21 15:16 ` Brian Gerst
2003-02-21 15:30 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-21 17:03 ` Steven Cole [this message]
[not found] <200302211454.h1LEsPh31866@neosilicon.transmeta.com>
2003-02-21 15:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-21 17:23 ` Paolo Ornati
2003-02-21 19:31 ` Thomas Molina
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