Re: Documentation typos - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Documentation typos
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Msg-id E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E4CC342C@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to Documentation typos  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-patches-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-patches-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of
> Andrew Dunstan
> Sent: 13 October 2005 14:56
> To: Michael Fuhr
> Cc: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Documentation typos
>
>
> You seem to have lots of time on your hands if you can worry
> about this.
> How you spend it is your business, of course, but playing
> spelling cop
> doesn't seem worth it to me.
>
> Is there an official spelling standard for PostgreSQL? If so,
> where is
> it stated? If we are going to adopt one I'd vote for the OED
> :-) I am so
> unconscious of it that it will be impossible for me to undo
> the habits
> of a lifetime, and I suspect I am not alone, so this would be a never
> ending battle.

I'm inclined to agree, but then maybe that's because I'm about 8 miles
from Oxford right now, and spent years at school being told off for
spelling things in American.

Regards, Dave.

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