From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: Fix typos in messages and comments (journalled -> journaled) Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 10:47:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20080501104739.154a7994@core> References: <12095679813226-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <12095679812375-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <12095679812452-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <1209567981639-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <20080430104330.66c44d4f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080430212711.168bdcc0@core> <1209592973.6113.23.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> <20080501002018.2729adcc@core> <1209608887.7650.6.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Jan Kara , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Kleikamp Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:49823 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757592AbYEAJzs (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 05:55:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1209608887.7650.6.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > I think I'm going to follow this up with the professional bodies and see > > if there is an opinion because either the computing world needs to agree > > on a proper English name, or they need to agree on a new one and talk to > > the dictionary people about it. > > If there's some kind of consensus, I don't have strong feelings either > way. BCS: "BCS use the OED as the final arbiter, without the zeds though...so journalise is what we'd use if we absolutely had to." I don't know if anyone has the right ACM contacts to find out what the other big professional body thinks ? Alan