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From: | Stefan Weil |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] Fix typo in code and comments |
Date: | Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:26:54 +0200 |
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Am 26.04.2011 19:04, schrieb Jan Marten Simons:
Am Dienstag 26 April 2011 11:25:58 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:Replace writeable -> writableWhy make this change? writeable and writable are both commonly used spellings.It seems like "writeable" is the commonly used term in computer sciences and "writable" is the normal english adjective formed from "to write" + "-able" ingeneral English.[1]As we are refering to computer science related "writeable" it should be left as is imho. But as I'm no native speaker, you might feel different on this. On a side note: Samba offers both spellings as valid for thier configurationfiles. [2] [1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/writeable [2] http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=22258.0 With regards, Dipl. Phys. Jan M. Simons Institute of Crystallography RWTH Aachen University
Commonly used is not necessarily correct. The Oxford dictionary only accepts writable (even when I select american english). Same result with Merriam-Webster. Google suggests writable instead of writeable. I see "writeable" only in computer programs and related contexts, therefore I assume that it is simply a very common spelling error contributed by non-native speakers (like myself). Interesting detail: The spelling checker of my mailing client (Icedove) marks writeable as correct and writable as wrong (which is obviously wrong). Maybe I should send a bug report to Debian. The ratio of writeable:writable in unpatched qemu is 37:47. Even if both writings were correct, I might argue that a uniform spelling is better and choose the form which is more commonly used. Let's improve the spelling for computer programs a little bit!
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