From: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] scripts/spelling.txt: keep British spelling for "initalise"
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 14:43:24 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260907091324.32211-1-hemanth.selam@gmail.com> (raw)
These are the only two entries in the file that map a British spelling
to an American one:
initalised||initialized
initalise||initialize
doc-guide/checkpatch.rst asks that British and American spellings be
left alone, so correcting the missing "i" should not also change the
variety of English. Following checkpatch here silently rewrites
"initalised" to "initialized" in files that otherwise use British
forms; arch/arm64 alone has 58 uses of "initialised" against 132 of
"initialized", so both are clearly in use.
Map them to the British forms instead, so the misspelling is still
caught while the spelling variety is left to the author.
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
---
scripts/spelling.txt | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/spelling.txt b/scripts/spelling.txt
index 3372873cd7bb..9ec2529bc584 100644
--- a/scripts/spelling.txt
+++ b/scripts/spelling.txt
@@ -872,8 +872,8 @@ infromation||information
ingore||ignore
inheritence||inheritance
inital||initial
-initalised||initialized
-initalise||initialize
+initalised||initialised
+initalise||initialise
initalized||initialized
initalize||initialize
initation||initiation
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