Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 02 Mar 2003 07:35:53 -0800 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker |
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David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 04:16, > '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 info. BTW it looks like http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ is a good authority on whether a word is legal -- and now I understand why it liked 'licence' but not 'licenced'.
> I think we also want to add: > > Decompressing=Uncompressing
I'd prefer to leave that one alone, it seems innocent enough for me.
> You should also refrain from 'correcting' the already-correct British > spellings of 'modelled'.
OK. Any anti-british corrections are not by intent!
> 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.
Might be, but I'll leave that for another day. I'd rather focus on correcting the uncontroversial and obvious howlers.
- Dan
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