Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030279AbWCTU4J (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:56:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030275AbWCTU4J (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:56:09 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:34234 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030279AbWCTU4I (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:56:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:55:46 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Chris Boot Cc: Matheus Izvekov , Jan Engelhardt , kernel list Subject: Re: SubmittingPatches typo Message-ID: <20060320205546.GH24523@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060320125012.GA21545@elf.ucw.cz> <305c16960603201247p53718859ofa0e6d0355c9da1a@mail.gmail.com> <441F1650.7070906@bootc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <441F1650.7070906@bootc.net> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1340 Lines: 35 On Po 20-03-06 20:53:36, Chris Boot wrote: > Matheus Izvekov wrote: > >On 3/20/06, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >>>Hi! > >>> > >>>I'm not 100% sure with my english, but this seems wrong... > >>> > >>>Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek > >>> > >>>-Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format: > >>>+Linus Torvalds' mail on the canonical patch format: > >>Neither. (It would have been correct in German, though.) > >>Correct is - in English: > >> Linus Torvalds's mail on the canonical patch format: > >> > > > >I agree with Pavel. i think its a rule in english that when the word > >ends with s, you dont repeat another s after the ' > > When a word ends with an 's' *because it is plural* (i.e. the s denotes > plurality) then you omit the second 's'. If the word ends with 's' in > singular form you do the whole whack: ..s's. > > I can't quote a source for this, but it's something I've known for years. Ok, if you are native speaker, I trust you. Could you send a patch to akpm? Pavel -- Picture of sleeping (Linux) penguin wanted... - 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/