Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker | From | Steven Cole <> | Date | 02 Mar 2003 06:49:50 -0700 |
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On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 04:21, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 04:16, Steven Cole wrote: > > > Another correction to the corrections file: > > > > Licensed=Licenced > > ^^^^^^^^ > > I think Licenced is OK in the UK. > > See http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/jones/differences.htm > > 'Licenced' is not OK in the UK; it should be corrected to 'Licensed'. > > In the UK, 'licence' is a noun, 'license' is a verb -- just as with > practice/practise and advice/advise etc. in both variants of the > language.
Thanks for the explanation.
> > I think we also want to add: > > Decompressing=Uncompressing > > You should also refrain from 'correcting' the already-correct British > spellings of 'modelled'. > > It might also be worth adding a list of 'suspect' spellings -- which > require human intervention. Such items might include 'indices=indexes' > and 'erratum=errata' although you can't do it automatically because > sometimes the right-hand side is actually correct.
In my first pass through the tree, it looks like there are quite a few _correct_ uses of errata, but there indeed some of these:
./drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.c: /* Avoid a chip errata by prefixing a dummy entry. */
I think the errata/erratum issue requires careful editing.
Steven
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