Re: [trinity-devel] [Fwd: English spelling]

All, I received this message a couple days ago. Forwarding it to the list so that we don't lose track of it. Tim ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: English spelling From: Elan Ruusamäe <glen(a)pld-linux.org> Date: Sat, March 21, 2015 8:19 am To: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- hi i noticed several places of bad spelling, like "is" written as "are": http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/tree/CMakeLists.txt | tde_message_fatal( "ltdl.h are required, but not found on your system" | ) should be written as | tde_message_fatal( "ltdl.h is required, but not found on your system" ) and so on for all items which are singular not plural... and "informations"! info is uncountable, therefore it's always "info" and "information" http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tde-packaging "Branch Informations " should be written as "Branch Information" explanation: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=215770