Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271713AbTHHREX (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:04:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271714AbTHHREX (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:04:23 -0400 Received: from mail44-s.fg.online.no ([148.122.161.44]:8882 "EHLO mail44.fg.online.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271713AbTHHRES convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:04:18 -0400 From: Svein Ove Aas To: Adrian Bunk , Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 18:58:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo , Jasper Spaans , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030807180032.GA16957@spaans.vs19.net> <20030808071530.GD18823@suse.de> <20030808110411.GQ16091@fs.tum.de> In-Reply-To: <20030808110411.GQ16091@fs.tum.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308081858.47849.svein.ove@aas.no> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1336 Lines: 41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 fredag 8. august 2003, 13:04, skrev Adrian Bunk: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:15:30AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 08 2003, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > I know it wasn't purely cosmetic but i just wish we could use the > > > proper spelling instead of US English. No i'm not trolling. > > > > You might want to be, but you are ;) > > > > US English is clearly more optimized. > > E.g. you need less than 1/1000 of the money you need for one billion > (UK English) English pounds for one billion (US English) dollars. > > OTOH, it sounds funny that the USA are indebted with several trillion > (US English) dollars. How so? In Norwegian you'd be right; we have "Million - Milliard - Billion - Billiard" and so forth. But UK English? How does that work? I'm having difficulties imagining you saying "one milliard pounds". - - Svein Ove Aas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/M9a+9OlFkai3rMARAtCSAJ9W7VU3QAgu7gRaJGzq7tJujDsqswCdHsDX 6Fpxi808OjdFCW18MQ+L4K8= =buHC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/