On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 13:29:47 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 03:48:36AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Better foreign_arches, well sounds that way to me, but then I'm not a > > native speaker. :) > > I see that this has been used consistently throughout the code to date > (albeit not the C code), but this is definitely wrong to me as a native > speaker. :/
Yeah, we should fix this in the perl parts before making the API public. > The pluralization rules in English are that you add "es" instead of "s" > to words that end in the *sound* /ch/ (IPA: ʧ), but the word "arch" is > an abbreviation of "architecture", so is pronounced "ark" (IPA: > ɑrk), and the pluralization rule is to just add "s". > > Cf. "patriarch, patriarchs". Ah, right, I guess all this time I've just been internally pronouncing ‘arch’ wrongly, even if I pronounce ‘architecture’ correctly. :/ > So this is one style change that I'm not going to make. :) Yeah, sure thing. :) thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
