Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 34/35] pc: ACPI BIOS: make GPE.3 handle memory hotplug event on PIIX and Q35 machines

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 05/05/2014 18:25, Eric Blake ha scritto:
> > > also make handler edge based to avoid loosing events, the same as
> s/loosing/losing/
>
> (loose rhymes with goose and means the opposite of "tight"; lose rhymes
> with use and means the opposite of "gain" - it is a very frequent typo
> to see people put too many 'o's when they meant a variant of "lose")

Unfortunately rhymes are useless to non-native speakers. :)  A good way 
to remember it is to think of 'loosen' and 'lost' rather than 'loose' 
and 'lose', which are pronounced differently and hence easier to 
associate with the right number of 'o's.

Paolo