Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761413AbXEMNpM (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 09:45:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761311AbXEMNou (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 09:44:50 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:34493 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761301AbXEMNoq convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 09:44:46 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 14:47:25 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: James Cloos Cc: LKML , discuss@x86-64.org, Simon Arlott , trivial@kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [discuss] [PATCH] spelling fixes: arch/x86_64/ Message-ID: <20070513144725.07487fc7@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <4644C783.3090805@simon.arlott.org.uk> <200705121825.26430.ak@suse.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 769 Lines: 20 > 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. Re-enable is definitely "more correct". > 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. The dictionary agrees. 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/