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Re: el vs ell (Re: Static tracepoints support)
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:09:01 +0300
- Subject: Re: el vs ell (Re: Static tracepoints support)
- References: <201006251931.57860.pedro@codesourcery.com> <83tyoqcc8i.fsf@gnu.org> <201006281326.39820.pedro@codesourcery.com> <201007011449.54153.pedro@codesourcery.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:49:53 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> As promised.. There is only one other instance of "el" or "ell" in
> the manuals or sources I could find (cd gdb; egrep " el(l)?(,|\.| )" * -rn),
> and it was the one I copied from. I was going to fix it, but, I noticed
> that <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L> says:
>
> "L is the twelfth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in
> English (play /ËÉl/) is spelled el or occasionally ell.[1]"
>
> So, which one should we use? Is this an American English vs other
> flavours issue?
I don't know about flavors, but every instance I saw used "ell".