Bug#523601: spelling: inofficial vs. unofficial

2009-04-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 09:04 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Michael Prokop 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 n

Bug#523601: spelling: inofficial vs. unofficial

2009-04-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Prokop 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

Bug#523601: spelling: inofficial vs. unofficial

2009-04-11 Thread Michael Prokop
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=en&service=d