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.
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