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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
April 26, 2007 06:38
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] perlre.pod spellcheck
Message ID:
20070426095513.GB86265@plum.flirble.org
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:06:25AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 10:43 +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> > On 23/04/07, Alexandr Ciornii <alexchorny@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > Corrected several spell/format errors.
> > 
> > Thanks, applied as change #31067 (except the change in spelling in
> > optimise/optimize -- I guess we don't want to go down that path and
> > start standardizing the core docs on whatever flavour [flavor?] of

Ooh. I didn't notice that. Z (US) then OUR (UK) in one sentence.
(Although Nick Ing-Simmons would observe that the Z form is older in English,
and (IIRC) was changed to S when there was a fad were French was fashionable)

> > English one can argue endlessly about...)
> 
> Consistent spelling in the same document might be good though:

Nah. It just emphasises that we really mean T.M.T.O.W.T.D.I. :-)

Nicholas Clark

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