[COMMITED][BZ #16375] Fix spelling in manual

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta@iki.fi
Fri Jan 10 09:18:00 GMT 2014


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> On 30 Dec 2013, Ondřej Bílka said:
>
>> ion \n-which you can get with functions targetted to this purpose described in \
>> ion \n+which you can get with functions targeted to this purpose described in \n
>>                                             ^ ^
>
> This is not a spelling correction, but a change from one dialectical
> variation (British English, or more generally Commonwealth English) to
> another (US English).

I don't claim to be anywhere near an expert on this, but FWIW before
submitting the patch, I checked these:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/target ("British
& World English")
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/target
("American English")

Both of them say "Do not double the final consonant when adding
endings which begin with a vowel to a word which ends in a vowel plus
a consonant, if the stress is not at the end of the word: (targets,
targeting, targeted)."



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