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SubjectRe: [PATCH 10/15] regulator: documentation - consumer interface
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On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 19:39 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:18:25PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 06:10:13PM +0300, Paulius Zaleckas wrote:
> > > Liam Girdwood wrote:
> >
> > > >+previously enabled by bootloader or kernel board initialisation code.
> >
> > > initialization
> > > ^
> >
> > Not in the UK :)
>
> Actually, wrong. "Initialize" is correct spelling in the UK too - I've
> checked several UK dictionaries printed in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
> sourced from different printers, and they all agree on that.
>
> At the same time I checked other words which I thought ended in -ise.
> The dictionaries all said -ize and didn't list the -ise version.
>
> Therefore, I suspect -ise came into use in the late 1980s in the UK.
>
> Given my research, I'm intending to use the -ize version myself from
> now on, to support the English ideals. 8)

ok, I concede. -ize it is ;)

Liam



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