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From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@cscott.net>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: I want to release a "git-1.0"
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:16:05 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0506011607480.11264@cag.csail.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0506011304001.21267@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, David Lang wrote:

>> *1* David says "deltify" and Nico calls it "deltafy".  I am not
>> a native speaker so I cannot tell, but which one is correct?
>
> Nico is correct

Au contraire.  The common *pronunciation* may be 'delta-fy', but the 
correct spelling should be 'deltify'.  The google oracle agrees (1,440 vs 
54) as does the spelling of the svnadmin command.  (Of course, what google 
is really measuring is relative frequency of 'git' vs 'svn'.)

$ grep '[^if]fy$' /usr/dict/american-english-large

shows that the only vowels other than 'i' which preced the '-fy' morpheme 
are 'e's, and they only appear in words like 'liquefy' where the root has 
been substantially altered.  Most sources (eg
http://www.southampton.liunet.edu/academic/pau/course/websuf.htm#IFYVERB
) list the morpheme as '-ify'.  See
     http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=ify
and compare
     http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=fy

Contrary to David's assertion, David is right.
  --scott

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-01 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-30 20:00 I want to release a "git-1.0" Linus Torvalds
2005-05-30 20:33 ` jeff millar
2005-05-30 20:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-06-01  6:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-06-01  8:24     ` [PATCH] Add -d flag to git-pull-* family Junio C Hamano
2005-06-01 14:39       ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-06-01 16:00         ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found]           ` <7v1x7lk8fl.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2005-06-02  0:47             ` [PATCH] Handle deltified object correctly in git-*-pull family Nicolas Pitre
     [not found]             ` <7vpsv5hbm5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2005-06-02  0:51               ` [PATCH] Stop inflating the whole SHA1 file only to check size Nicolas Pitre
2005-06-02  1:32                 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-06-02  0:58             ` [PATCH] Handle deltified object correctly in git-*-pull family Linus Torvalds
2005-06-02  1:43               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-30 20:59 ` I want to release a "git-1.0" Junio C Hamano
2005-05-30 21:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-30 22:11 ` David Greaves
2005-05-30 22:12 ` Dave Jones
2005-05-30 22:55   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-05-30 23:15     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-30 23:23     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-05-31  0:52   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-30 22:19 ` Ryan Anderson
2005-05-31  0:58   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-30 22:32 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-05-30 23:56   ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-05-31  1:06   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-01  2:11     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-06-01  2:25       ` David Lang
2005-06-01  4:53         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-06-01 20:06           ` David Lang
2005-06-01 20:16             ` C. Scott Ananian [this message]
2005-06-02  0:43               ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-06-02  1:14                 ` Brian O'Mahoney
2005-06-01 23:03             ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-31  0:19 ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-31 13:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-06-01  3:04   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-01  4:06     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-06-02 23:54       ` [PATCH] Fix -B "very-different" logic Junio C Hamano
2005-06-03  0:21         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-03  1:33           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-06-03  8:32             ` [PATCH 0/4] " Junio C Hamano
2005-06-03  8:36               ` [PATCH 1/4] Tweak count-delta interface Junio C Hamano
2005-06-03  8:36               ` [PATCH 2/4] diff: Fix docs and add -O to diff-helper Junio C Hamano
2005-06-03  8:37               ` [PATCH 3/4] diff: Clean up diff_scoreopt_parse() Junio C Hamano
2005-06-03  8:40               ` [PATCH 4/4] diff: Update -B heuristics Junio C Hamano
2005-06-01  6:28     ` I want to release a "git-1.0" Junio C Hamano
2005-06-01 22:00     ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-01 23:05       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-06-03  9:47       ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-03 15:09         ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-02  7:15     ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-06-02  8:32       ` Kay Sievers
2005-06-02 14:52       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-02 12:02     ` [PATCH] several typos in tutorial Alexey Nezhdanov
2005-06-02 12:41       ` Vincent Hanquez
2005-06-02 12:45         ` Alexey Nezhdanov
2005-06-02 12:51           ` Vincent Hanquez
2005-06-02 12:56             ` Alexey Nezhdanov
2005-06-02 13:00             ` Alexey Nezhdanov
2005-06-02 23:40     ` I want to release a "git-1.0" Adam Kropelin
2005-06-03  0:06       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-03  0:47         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-03  1:34           ` Adam Kropelin
2005-06-02 19:43 ` CVS migration section to the tutorial Junio C Hamano

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