Typo fixed [LWN.net]

Typo fixed

Posted Jan 9, 2007 18:17 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Ubuntu Weekly News by hildeb
Parent article: Ubuntu Weekly News

"I" before "e", except after "c" or in Ubuntu release names. Fixed.

For future reference, typo notes sent to lwn@lwn.net are more likely to be noticed and acted upon - and they don't clutter up the comment section with uninteresting stuff.

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Typo fixed

Posted Jan 9, 2007 20:06 UTC (Tue) by johnkarp (guest, #39285) [Link] (1 responses)

Maybe some sort of 'report error in lwn writeup' function could be built
into the comment system.

People are less likely to send emails, because 1) it involves firing up a
separate application and composing an email from scratch referencing the
article, and 2) the resulting email isn't visible in the article (unlike
comments), so lacking that notice everyone will either assume someone else
sent in the correction, or flood your inbox with the same corrections.

Typo fixed

Posted Jan 10, 2007 10:21 UTC (Wed) by lacostej (guest, #2760) [Link]

> Maybe some sort of 'report error in lwn writeup' function could be built
into the comment system.

Irish accent?

Posted Jan 10, 2007 1:12 UTC (Wed) by jabby (guest, #2648) [Link] (1 responses)

The rest of the English spelling rule is "... and when pronounced 'a', as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'." But, when you pronounce "feisty" like "faysty", it sounds kind of Irish... Perhaps *that* is the source of this part of the Irish accent!! ;o)

Irish accent?

Posted Jan 10, 2007 2:54 UTC (Wed) by dark (guest, #8483) [Link]

Then there's "weird".