Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianb...@freegeek.org> writes:

> i get several lintian warnings with regards to the spelling of "useable":

>   W: qemu-user-static: spelling-error-in-changelog useable usable

> according to wordnet, at least, "useable" and "usable" are synonyms of
> each other. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/usable also lists "useable" as
> an alternate form.

Usually we get the UK vs. US English problem going the other way.  :)  In
this case, the problem is that useable is wrong in US English according to
Merriam-Webster but permitted in UK English by the OED.

I'll remove this correction.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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