Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes:

> I question that discontiguous is a spelling error of noncontiguous.

> In the case of the last-align package, if I search the web with the word
> in its context, "discontiguous suffix array", I find serveral hits that
> are not derived from the package's description or Upstream material.  In
> contrary, "non-contiguous suffix array" and "noncontiguous suffix array"
> return nothing.  “discontiguous” has an entry in several dictionnaries.
> I suggest to remove it from the list of spelling errors.

Discontiguous does not appear in Merriam-Webster and in other US English
dictionaries I checked, but it does appear in the OED (with no obsolete or
rare markings) and a history back to the 1700s, so this looks like a UK
versus US English variation.

I'll remove this correction.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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