Wait, "a handful X" is now a legitimate form of "a handful of X"? I assumed they were due to non-native speakers. On 1/12/09, jidanni@xxxxxxxxxxx <jidanni@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've decided to back out of my plan to patch grammar. > $ perl -nwle '/\w+\s+handful.*/i&& print $&' Documentation/*|sort -uf > a handful commits on top of that, > A handful documentation fixes. > A handful documentation updates. > a handful example hooks are copied in the > a handful fixes to run it > a handful of examples: > A handful of sample hooks are installed when > a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better > a handful small fixes to gitweb. > a handful the real changes in non-zero > first handful of characters, show the full > only handful hexdigits prefix. > only handful hexdigits prefix. Non default number of > only handful hexdigits prefix. This is > > At first some of the above lines irritated me, but who am I to say > that English must be said like my mom says it, and is never allowed to > evolve further. Nope, I'll stick to correcting 2+2=3 type things. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
