Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Ben Hutchings Newsgroups: linux.debian.bugs.dist,linux.debian.kernel Subject: Bug#818643: Decide whether to use American or British spelling conventions Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 04:30:01 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-bugs-dist-request@lists.debian.org Sat Mar 19 03:27:12 2016 Old-Return-Path: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.2 Reply-To: Ben Hutchings , 818643@bugs.debian.org Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-Cc: Debian kernel team X-Debian-Pr-Message: report 818643 X-Debian-Pr-Package: debian-kernel-handbook X-Debian-Pr-Source: kernel-handbook X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.0000 Tokens: new, 11; hammy, 150; neutral, 93; spammy, 0. spammytokens: hammytokens:0.000-+--systemd, 0.000-+--H*F:D*decadent.org.uk, 0.000-+--H*RU:sk:shadbol, 0.000-+--H*RU:88.96.1.126, 0.000-+--HX-SA-Exim-Scanned:sk:shadbol Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: reportbug 6.6.6 X-Sa-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-Sa-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-Sa-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Debian-Message: from BTS X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1259800 List-ID: List-URL: Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 38 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 03:23:54 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <145835783472.18064.3392824542778724391.reportbug@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.bugs.dist:725156 linux.debian.kernel:53241 Package: debian-kernel-handbook Version: 1.0.17 Severity: minor After handling #818577 I decided to spell-check the entire document. I didn't find any other definite errors, though "prepended" is not widely accepted and should probably be "prefixed". I did notice that for those words that have different spellings in American and British English, we sometimes have American spellings and sometimes British. (This is possibly due to my writing most of the new text and using British spelling by default.) We should really settle on which conventions to use, and document that. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) debian-kernel-handbook depends on no packages. Versions of packages debian-kernel-handbook recommends: ii chromium [www-browser] 49.0.2623.87-1 ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 45.0esr-2 ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-27 debian-kernel-handbook suggests no packages. -- no debconf information