Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.45 > Severity: normal > > Lintian warns about a mis-spelling in one of my packages: > > W: libsvnqt4: spelling-error-in-copyright publically publicly > > Imho, both spellings are correct [1] and the check is wrong.
This sort of thing always bugs me; the only reason why dictionaries are now listing publically as a valid spelling is because so many people didn't spell it properly (probably reasoning by analogy about spelling from words with different origins). Publicly has always been the correct spelling. Publically is only showing up because it's so commonly misspelled that Merriam-Webster basically gave up. However, that does happen to languages, and it's probably not worth the effort for me to be pointlessly pedantic about it. I'll take it back out again. Life is too short to worry too much about it. :) (You'll find, though, that spelling checkers like ispell will tell you that publically is an incorrect spelling.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
