From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
discuss@x86-64.org, Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>,
trivial@kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [discuss] [PATCH] spelling fixes: arch/x86_64/
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 14:47:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070513144725.07487fc7@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3abw9a4w9.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-13 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-11 19:44 Simon Arlott
2007-05-12 16:25 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2007-05-13 1:27 ` James Cloos
2007-05-13 8:14 ` Robert Dewar
2007-05-13 13:47 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-05-14 0:36 ` James Cloos
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