Bug#169843: Misspelling under "Severity levels"
Gerfried Fuchs said:
> * Andrew Shugg <andrew@neep.com.au> [2002-11-20 11:38]:
> > Andrew Lau said:
> >> makes the package in question unuseable or mostly so, or causes
> >>
> >> should read:
> >> makes the package in question UNUSABLE or mostly so, or causes
> >
> > No, unusable and unuseable are both valid spellings.
> >
> > http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Query=unusable&Strategy=*&Database=*
> > http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Query=unuseable&Strategy=*&Database=*
>
> But the seconds version shouldn't be used, Andrew (Lau ;) is right. It
> is the first time that I see it documented anywhere, I am not sure if
> WordNet is correct in that respect...
Okay. Maybe a bug should be filed against the dict-wn package. ;)
> I don't really care if it might be valid, unusable should be prefered
> and is less confusing.
It's not in the Pocket Oxford so I'll retract my backing for "unuseable".
Andrew.
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