On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:45:21PM -0500, Alexander Winston wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 17:00, Branden Robinson wrote: > > It would also be nice if the linda maintainer would learn to spell > > "dependent". > > So much for spelling variants. . . On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:54:29PM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > shell$ dict dependant > From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 > [gcide]: > > Dependant \De*pend"ant\, Dependance \De*pend"ance\, n., > Dependancy \De*pend"an*cy\, n. > See {Dependent}, {Dependence}, {Dependency}. > [1913 Webster] > > Note: The forms dependant, dependance, dependancy are from > the French; the forms dependent, etc., are from the > Latin. Some authorities give preference to the form > dependant when the word is a noun, thus distinguishing > it from the adjective, usually written dependent. > [1913 Webster] > > "Some authorities" is not all inclusive by any means. IOW, it doesn't > matter all that much. Our institutional practice appears to be to use the "-ent" forms exclusively. See dpkg(8) and apt-get(8), for example. -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux | Lincoln today -- just a rumor that branden@debian.org | is put about by people who have http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | nowhere to live. -- G. L. Murfin
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