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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] fs/dcache: fix typos and sentence disorder
    On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 03:00:20PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
    > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:31:53PM +0800, Xiaofeng Cao wrote:
    > > change 'sould' to 'should'
    > > change 'colocated' to 'collocated'
    >
    > uh. collocated is incorrect. colocated is correct.
    > https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colocate
    > https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collocate

    A bit more condensed variant: these two are both derived from
    con- + loco, but have different meanings -
    colocated: occupying the same place
    collocated: sitting next to each other

    In this case it's very much the former - the point of comment is that
    the fields in question share the same memory location, but we are
    guaranteed that any dentry we find in the alias list of an inode will
    have that location used for ->i_dentry.

    "co-located" would probably work better there.

    PS: history of that word pair is amusing. Both are (English) past participles,
    of co-locate and collocate resp. The former had the (Latin) prefix applied in
    English to borrowing from Latin (co-locate < locate < locatus) , the latter
    is straight borrowing (collocate < collocatus). Incidentally, in both cases
    the borrowed form had already been a past participle (of loco and
    colloco) resp. And colloco had the same prefix (com-/con-/co-) applied
    in Latin, with regular assimilation of -nl- to -ll-. But at that stage
    the meaning of the verb had been closer to "put in place" than to
    "be in place", so that gave "put next to each other" instead of "share
    the place". Shift towards "be found next to each other" happened long after
    the prefix had been applied...

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