Bug#523601: spelling: inofficial vs. unofficial
Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> 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, but the OED marks it as
rare, which basically means that you never see it in normal written
English.
Normal Merriam-Webster doesn't recognize it, and both ispell and aspell
consider it a misspelling and suggest unofficial. dictionary.com has it,
but dictionary.com is based on Webster's Unabridged. I think this is a
case where an unabridged dictionary is steering you wrong.
There's some possibility that this is a US English vs. British English
thing, but I don't think it is.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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