I had a change to go though it and it all looks ok.
 
By the way 'dying' is correct the word you are thinking of  is 'dyeing' 
 
English is such a silly language;)
 
Cheers
John
 
> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:03:54 +0200
> From: h.m.br...@xs4all.nl
> To: dbi-dev@perl.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Spelling fixes.
> 
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:57:25 +0300, Ville Skyttä <ville.sky...@iki.fi>
> wrote:
> 
> > -         * We still localize, so we're safe from the callback dieing,
> > +         * We still localize, so we're safe from the callback dying,
> 
> Changes like that make me weary to apply blindly.
> 
> I, not having an English native tongue, would read that change as a
> change from "The callback is going to die" to "the callback is going
> to be painted". I know that would have to be "dyeing" but still not
> an improvement. "dieing" is pretty common as "die" is a perl keyword.
> Maybe "die-ing" would be the best approach.
> 
> Thanks for the work, I'll go through all of them later if noone beats
> me to it
> 
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