Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751164AbWCVJdU (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:33:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751165AbWCVJdU (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:33:20 -0500 Received: from fc-cn.com ([218.25.172.144]:55826 "HELO mail.fc-cn.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751164AbWCVJdT (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:33:19 -0500 Message-ID: <442119CA.6020305@fc-cn.com> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:32:58 +0800 From: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCNzdNJhsoQg==?= Organization: FCD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ja-JP; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: "J. Bruce Fields" , Matheus Izvekov , Jan Engelhardt , Pavel Machek , kernel list Subject: Re: SubmittingPatches typo References: <20060320125012.GA21545@elf.ucw.cz> <305c16960603201247p53718859ofa0e6d0355c9da1a@mail.gmail.com> <20060320210209.GD31512@fieldses.org> <1142939779.21455.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1142939779.21455.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1774 Lines: 60 Alan Cox wrote: >>Nope. It's actually one of the amusing places where there *is* no rule. >>Plurals that end in s always get just the apostrophe. But for singular >>nouns that end in s, while I tend to think of "'s" as the default, some >>people like to drop the final s if the result ("Sophocles's") would >>otherwise sound awkward spoken aloud. >> >> > >The definitive references have this to say > >US English: Strunk and White says it should be "Torvalds's" and that the >apostrophe alone is used only for ancient particularly biblical names >ending in -es/is (eg Moses' laws) > > akpm is already saying "Linus's" in his *mm-commits*: This patch was probably dropped from -mm because it has already been merged into a subsystem tree or into Linus's tree (btw, when Americans made mistakes, their English became American English.) >UK English: The Oxford Guide To Style says > >"Use 's after non-classical or non-classicizing personal names ending >with an s or z sound). It also says that Torvalds' would be acceptable. > > >So both agree that > > Torvalds's > >is correct and that would appear to be the right choice to keep everyone >both sides of the pond happy. > >Jan: Care to submit an updated patch as the original is indeed wrong ? > >Alan > >- >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/ > > > > - 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/