Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932500AbYGQTlE (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:41:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756096AbYGQTkx (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:40:53 -0400 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:3065 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753295AbYGQTkw (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:40:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:40:44 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Paulius Zaleckas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/15] regulator: documentation - consumer interface Message-ID: <20080717194042.GA8585@sirena.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Russell King - ARM Linux , Paulius Zaleckas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk References: <1215703618.13431.66.camel@odin> <487777D5.7050807@teltonika.lt> <20080711191824.GA28821@sirena.org.uk> <20080717183931.GB15178@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080717183931.GB15178@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> X-Cookie: The bug starts here. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1133 Lines: 30 On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:39:31PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:18:25PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 06:10:13PM +0300, Paulius Zaleckas wrote: > > > Liam Girdwood wrote: > > > initialization > > Not in the UK :) ... > At the same time I checked other words which I thought ended in -ise. > The dictionaries all said -ize and didn't list the -ise version. > Therefore, I suspect -ise came into use in the late 1980s in the UK. > Given my research, I'm intending to use the -ize version myself from > now on, to support the English ideals. 8) Heh. This fits the general pattern where American and English spellings diverge - usually it's the English spelling which changed rather than the American one. It's not normally so recent, though. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever." -- 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/