[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix common misspellings

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Wed Mar 25 16:44:53 UTC 2015


On 03/23/2015 02:46 AM, Martin Kletzander wrote:

>>> -      In exceptional circumstances longer initial embargos may be
>>> +      In exceptional circumstances longer initial embargoes may be
>>
>> This one is ambiguous (I've seen both spellings; zeros/zeroes is another
>> such word), but Thunderbird's US spell-check dictionary prefers
>> embargoes, so go for it.
>>
> 
> My en_GB.utf8 ispell only allows "embargoes".  What is your opinion on
> "dependant" and similar words I've left out?

dependant is flagged as wrong in US dictionary (only valid in UK
dictionary, and even then, it has only the financial sense and not the
inter-relatedness sense that we are more prone to be wanting throughout
code).  There is no word 'independant' in either variant. So another
patch to s/\(\(in\)\?depen\)dant/\1dent/ would be correct.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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