Guillem Jover <[email protected]> writes: > Hi!
> On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 18:32:36 +0200, Omar Campagne wrote: >> diff -rupN man/dpkg.1 mannew//dpkg.1 >> -additional options set on the command line, and thru this file descriptor, >> +additional options set on the command line, and through this file >> descriptor, > Small nitpick. Thru is a correct simplified spelling of through. It might > sound more correct to spell it through though, so I guess the change is > fine. > But then I'm not a native speaker... Thru for through is rare in idiomatic US English. It looks either archaic or like an intentional affectation to a native speaker, at least of my dialect (Western US). -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
