[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix common misspellings
Martin Kletzander
mkletzan at redhat.com
Thu Mar 26 06:43:18 UTC 2015
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:44:53AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>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.
>
Thanks for the explanation. I used it in the commit message for such
patch. And s/dependan/dependen/ was enough, plus it revelaed
'dependancies' as well.
>--
>Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
>Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>
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