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From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: 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: Sat, 12 May 2007 21:27:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3abw9a4w9.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705121825.26430.ak@suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Sat\, 12 May 2007 18\:25\:26 +0200")

>>>>> "Andi" == Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

>> -		/* Reenable any watchpoints before delivering the
>> +		/* Re-enable any watchpoints before delivering the

Andi> reenable gets >140k google hits so it seems to be an really
Andi> used word.

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.

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.

-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-13  4:56 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 [this message]
2007-05-13  8:14     ` Robert Dewar
2007-05-13 13:47     ` Alan Cox
2007-05-14  0:36       ` James Cloos

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