Bug#523601: spelling: inofficial vs. unofficial
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.9 Severity: minor I'm wondering about: /usr/share/lintian/lib/Spelling.pm: inofficial unofficial Querying some well known online dictionaries: | inofficial; nonofficial; unofficial -- http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?lang=enservice=deenopterrors=0optpro=0query=inofficialiservice=comment= | inofficial | nonofficial | nonofficially | unofficial | unofficially | off-the-record | off the record -- http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=endep=wlqAU.search=inoffiziell it shows that inofficial is a well known word. What's the reason for the inofficial vs. unofficial check inside lintian? regards, -mika- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#523601: spelling: inofficial vs. unofficial
Michael Prokop m...@grml.org writes: What's the reason for the inofficial vs. unofficial check inside lintian? inofficial looks wrong to me as a native English speaker. I've only seen that form of the word used by people who are not native speakers. It is listed in the OED with some history in English, but the OED marks it as rare, which basically means that you never see it in normal written English. Normal Merriam-Webster doesn't recognize it, and both ispell and aspell consider it a misspelling and suggest unofficial. dictionary.com has it, but dictionary.com is based on Webster's Unabridged. I think this is a case where an unabridged dictionary is steering you wrong. There's some possibility that this is a US English vs. British English thing, but I don't think it is. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#523601: spelling: inofficial vs. unofficial
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 09:04 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Michael Prokop m...@grml.org writes: What's the reason for the inofficial vs. unofficial check inside lintian? inofficial looks wrong to me as a native English speaker. I've only seen that form of the word used by people who are not native speakers. [...] There's some possibility that this is a US English vs. British English thing, but I don't think it is. It looks wrong to me as well, as a native speaker of British English. I don't recall having seen it used by a native speaker. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
