el vs ell (Re: Static tracepoints support)

[Michael Snyder]

Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Monday 28 June 2010 13:26:38, Pedro Alves wrote:
>>>> +query), until the target responds with @samp{l} (lower-case el, for
>>>> +@dfn{last}).                                                ^^
>>> "ell"
>> Thanks.  This was copied from elsewhere.  I'll audit those as well
>> after this is in.
>>
> 
> 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 /ˈɛl/) is spelled el or occasionally ell.[1]"
> 
> So, which one should we use?  Is this an American English vs other
> flavours issue?
> 

You could just say "lower-case 'L'"...