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From: | Wolfgang Jenkner |
Subject: | bug#10150: deactive->inactive, inactivate->deactivate spelling fixes |
Date: | Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:46:30 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.91 (berkeley-unix) |
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes: > Standard English uses the adjective "inactive" and the verb > "deactivate"; "deactive" and "inactivate" are solecisms. Actually, at least the Longman Dictionary of the English Language (2nd ed. 1991) contains inactivate vt to make inactive - inactivation n without any kind of restriction in usage or register. Wolfgang
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