Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:55:46 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: SubmittingPatches typo |
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On Po 20-03-06 20:53:36, Chris Boot wrote: > Matheus Izvekov wrote: > >On 3/20/06, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote: > >>>Hi! > >>> > >>>I'm not 100% sure with my english, but this seems wrong... > >>> > >>>Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> > >>> > >>>-Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format: > >>>+Linus Torvalds' mail on the canonical patch format: > >>Neither. (It would have been correct in German, though.) > >>Correct is - in English: > >> Linus Torvalds's mail on the canonical patch format: > >> > > > >I agree with Pavel. i think its a rule in english that when the word > >ends with s, you dont repeat another s after the ' > > When a word ends with an 's' *because it is plural* (i.e. the s denotes > plurality) then you omit the second 's'. If the word ends with 's' in > singular form you do the whole whack: ..s's. > > I can't quote a source for this, but it's something I've known for years.
Ok, if you are native speaker, I trust you. Could you send a patch to akpm? Pavel -- Picture of sleeping (Linux) penguin wanted... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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