Bug#564523: lintian: spelling check: alternate forms of 'parametrize'
Jonathan Yu <jawnsy@cpan.org> writes:
> Oxford English Dictionary uses 'parametrize' as the correct form. Indeed,
> lintian currently suggests this form with the error:
> I: libmouse-perl: spelling-error-in-manpage
> usr/share/man/man3/Mouse::Util::TypeConstraints.3pm.gz
> parameterize parametrize
> There are currently only 486,000 hits on Google for "parameterize", which
> has always been the way I've become accustomed to spelling the word.
Yeah, sorry, this is a US versus UK spelling difference that crept in to
the spelling correction list. I'll remove it for the next release.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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