Re: fix typos in comments - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: fix typos in comments
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Msg-id 20150426165801.GD18789@awork2.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: fix typos in comments  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: fix typos in comments
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On 2015-04-26 12:53:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2015-04-26 19:13:42 +0400, Dmitriy Olshevskiy wrote:
> >> - *      therefor it is up to the calling routine to
> >> + *      therefore it is up to the calling routine to
> 
> > I think both are actually legal? Yes therefore is more common, but
> > still.
> 
> Hm.  My dictionary says that "therefor" is archaic, but to my eye it
> looks just wrong.  Certainly no modern writer would spell it like that.

Mine said that it's still common in some circles, particularly the law,
so I thought I'd leave it alone.  I don't have that much of a 'feeling'
for english, strangely enough.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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