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Bug#523601: spelling: inofficial vs. unofficial



On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 09:04 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
[...]
> There's some possibility that this is a US English vs. British English
> thing, but I don't think it is.

It looks wrong to me as well, as a native speaker of "British English".
I don't recall having seen it used by a native speaker.

Adam



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