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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:17:03 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Jimmy Olgeni <olgeni@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha proc-alpha.sgml
Message-ID:  <20011114121703.H42750@monorchid.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011113234934.E3138-100000@delplex.bde.org>
References:  <200111121715.fACHFn782828@harmony.village.org> <20011113234934.E3138-100000@delplex.bde.org>

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On Tuesday, 13 November 2001 at 23:53:46 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>> In message <20011112112631.A3318@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Nik Clayton writes:
>>> Possibly.  But now every committer knows that we prefer "hard disk" to
>>> "harddisk".  That wouldn't happen if the commit message was less
>>> informative.
>>
>> Also, the fixes aren't really typos.  Htis is a type.  Harddisk is not
>> a typo, but an alternative spelling of hard disk.
>
> Harddisk is a grammar error.

No, it's a spelling error.  In speech the two are indistinguishable.

Greg
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