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Re: The Second Great Spelling Check (Re: Package descriptions and making them better)



Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> I wrote a patch to make ispell smart about the Debian control file format
> (see bug #119782), seeded the dictionary with package names and parts
> thereof, and in chunks over the course of the past month and a half,
> spell-checked my entire available file.  The diff is available at:
> 
> http://people.debian.org/~mdz/spelling/corrections.diff.gz

That's some amazing work. I will have any of my packages that are
effected, though I might not bother to upload right now for the more
pendantic capitalization changes.

- its perversity and horribleness, designed by Don Woods and James Lyon, who
+ its perverseness and horribleness, designed by Don Woods and James Lyon, who
  
I have to disagree with this change to intercal. My dictionary lists
perversity as a synonem of perverseness. It's also the wording the
upstream author chose, in a well-written and amusing document.

-- 
see shy jo, all typos in this message intentional :-)



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