Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757631AbaAHVox (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:44:53 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:44094 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755563AbaAHVov (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:44:51 -0500 Message-ID: <52CDC6D0.50601@infradead.org> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:44:48 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laszlo Papp CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: Documentation: spelling References: <52CD9ED7.5090208@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/08/14 13:11, Laszlo Papp wrote: > On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On 01/08/2014 08:31 AM, Laszlo Papp wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> which spelling is preferred for the documentation when sending patches? >>> >>> I see the UK'ish "initialise" as well as the US'ish "initialization" >>> within the same close to each other. >> >> >> We accept either UK or US spellings. >> >> It would be nice to be consistent within one document, but about all >> that we can count on is for one person to be consistent most of the >> time. >> >> -- >> ~Randy > > Thanks Randy! > > So, does that mean if I fix grammar or typo issues in a file, I should > also fix the UK'ish terms by replacing them with the US'ish when both > types are occurring? I would say the fewer "trivial" changes, the better, so don't change them if they are correct in either spelling. -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/