From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "C. Scott Ananian" Subject: Re: I want to release a "git-1.0" Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:16:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <972477.0a6782ba1d3b9f05216ed520ef720fcf.ANY@taniwha.stupidest.org><7vu0kiu8pm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vhdgismo0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Junio C Hamano , Chris Wedgwood , Linus Torvalds , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 01 22:18:52 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdZcF-0002KH-Ez for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 22:15:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261202AbVFAURZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:17:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261204AbVFAURY (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:17:24 -0400 Received: from sincerity-forever.csail.mit.edu ([128.30.67.31]:17565 "EHLO sincerity-forever.csail.mit.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261202AbVFAUQ6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:16:58 -0400 Received: from catfish.lcs.mit.edu ([128.30.67.25] helo=cag.csail.mit.edu) by sincerity-forever.csail.mit.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DdZdj-0004eU-00; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:16:35 -0400 To: David Lang In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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 United Nations KMPLEBE AMTHUG AVBRANDY UNIFRUIT chemical agent tonight ZPSEMANTIC ODYOKE struggle PBCABOOSE FJDEFLECT CLOWER MKSEARCH ZRBRIEF ( http://cscott.net/ )