On 2012-05-20 Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2012-05-19 at 20:17 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> > Not sure - OED says writeable is an alternate form of writable [ see
> > http://yfrog.com/oct3hdfj ], which sort of suggests writable is the
> Chambers 21st century lists neither writable nor writeable
On 2012-05-19 at 20:17 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Not sure - OED says writeable is an alternate form of writable [ see
> http://yfrog.com/oct3hdfj ], which sort of suggests writable is the
Chambers 21st century lists neither writable nor writeable, so neither
is allowed in Scrabble(tm) in
Not sure - OED says writeable is an alternate form of writable [ see
http://yfrog.com/oct3hdfj ], which sort of suggests writable is the
primary/preferred version, but writeable isn't wrong (in the UK). I
suspect if you had raised this 20 years ago the version with the e would
have been the UK spe
Hello,
lintian warned me about
I: exim4-base: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man8/exim.8.gz writeable
writable
Assuming this really is an error (and not british vs american
english) find attached a trivial patch to change all occurences of
writeable to writable.
cu andreas
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