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

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Mon Sep 16 12:59:08 CEST 2013


On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:

> (possible resend to fix... a typo. No kidding.)
>
> 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'm 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".

  ok, will resubmit as "[PATCH v2]" shortly.

rday

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