Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757593AbXEMIri (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 04:47:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756689AbXEMIra (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 04:47:30 -0400 Received: from nile.gnat.com ([205.232.38.5]:40830 "EHLO nile.gnat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756441AbXEMIr3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 04:47:29 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1850 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 04:47:29 EDT Message-ID: <4646C8FA.2090602@adacore.com> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 04:14:50 -0400 From: Robert Dewar User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Cloos CC: LKML , discuss@x86-64.org, trivial@kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Simon Arlott Subject: Re: [discuss] [PATCH] spelling fixes: arch/x86_64/ References: <4644C783.3090805@simon.arlott.org.uk> <200705121825.26430.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1806 Lines: 46 James Cloos wrote: >>>>>> "Andi" == Andi Kleen writes: > >>> - /* Reenable any watchpoints before delivering the >>> + /* Re-enable any watchpoints before delivering the > > Andi> reenable gets >140k google hits so it seems to be an really > Andi> used word. Well you will find extensive "misuse" of all the re-e* words in english, but all should be hyphenated. Moreover, there is no license in english to just create new such words, you cannot re-entertain your guests for example. In practice we do allow creation of new re-e* words, as in re-execute, and that's probably ok in techno-jargon-speak. But re-enable is an old and well used word, reenable is not, and I see no reason to encourage the latter incorrect use, since it is harder to read (double e after r at the start of the word is almost always a long e). Note that in google, you always want to hyphenate. reenable will catch only the misuses, re-enable will catch both. > > Essentially all commonly used English words which start out with hyphens > loose them over time. It starts out with typos and progresses until the > non-hyphenated form becomes the exclusively used form. It does seem that > re-enable → reenable is occurring, based on those search hits. Hyphens do sometimes disappear, but not for re-e*, OED version 2 does not allow a single such instance. > > Andi> Similar with upto. > > I’ve a *much* harder time agreeing with «upto» in place of «up to». > That should be treated as a typo in need of fixing. Indeed .. upto is not a word. > > -JimC - 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/