Bug#632159: lintian: [spelling-error-in-description] discontiguous noncontiguous: not a spelling error ?
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> I question that discontiguous is a spelling error of noncontiguous.
> In the case of the last-align package, if I search the web with the word
> in its context, "discontiguous suffix array", I find serveral hits that
> are not derived from the package's description or Upstream material. In
> contrary, "non-contiguous suffix array" and "noncontiguous suffix array"
> return nothing. “discontiguous” has an entry in several dictionnaries.
> I suggest to remove it from the list of spelling errors.
Discontiguous does not appear in Merriam-Webster and in other US English
dictionaries I checked, but it does appear in the OED (with no obsolete or
rare markings) and a history back to the 1700s, so this looks like a UK
versus US English variation.
I'll remove this correction.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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