[U-Boot] [PATCH] Cosmetic: Fix a number of typoes, no functional changes.

Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Mon Sep 16 12:50:40 CEST 2013


Hi Robert,

On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 18:49:23 -0400 (EDT), "Robert P. J. Day"
<rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Sep 2013, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > Fix various misspellings of things like "environment", "kernel",
> > > "default" and "volatile", and throw in a couple grammar fixes.
> >
> > Isn't there a typo in the subject itself ("typoes") ?
> 
>   i believe it's one of those matters of personal taste whether you
> spell it "typos" or "typoes". but i can resubmit if that's the
> standard here.

Well, I'd slightly out of my realm here as I usually do rigid pedantism
in French only :), but it seems like the correct plural form of "typo"
is "typos", because, unlike "tomato" or "hero", "typo" is not a word in
itself but an abbreviation, and thus follows the same rule as "photo"
or "radio" does [1].

Thus I vote for fixing "typoes" into "typos".

> rday

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.
[1] ... or should it be "do"? :)


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