Re: [PATCH] Fix common misspellings

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:44:53AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
On 03/23/2015 02:46 AM, Martin Kletzander wrote:

-      In exceptional circumstances longer initial embargos may be
+      In exceptional circumstances longer initial embargoes may be

This one is ambiguous (I've seen both spellings; zeros/zeroes is another
such word), but Thunderbird's US spell-check dictionary prefers
embargoes, so go for it.


My en_GB.utf8 ispell only allows "embargoes".  What is your opinion on
"dependant" and similar words I've left out?

dependant is flagged as wrong in US dictionary (only valid in UK
dictionary, and even then, it has only the financial sense and not the
inter-relatedness sense that we are more prone to be wanting throughout
code).  There is no word 'independant' in either variant. So another
patch to s/\(\(in\)\?depen\)dant/\1dent/ would be correct.


Thanks for the explanation.  I used it in the commit message for such
patch.  And s/dependan/dependen/ was enough, plus it revelaed
'dependancies' as well.

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