severity 659841 minor
retitle 659841 color shouldn't be present at level 10 in wbritish
thanks
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Drew Parsons wrote:
> This means the wordlist is unable to function correctly, it does not
> perform its sole job of providing British English spellings. I have
> therefore marked the bug as grave ("the package does not achieve its
> purpose").
Uh... severity grave would only be appropriate if the package didn't
ship a wordlist or did something else horrible, like containing only
klingon words. If we were to accept your logic, any bug in scowl at
all would be grave.
On to the bug: color, while certainly not the preferred spelling in
en_GB, is used occasionally,[1] so it's presence in the wordlist is
fairly reasonable. That said, it seems to me to be a bug for this word
to be present in the less-inclusive levels of wbrittish, as it's
certainly not as commonly used as say, "reprised". [And just to
address your other assertion:
% grep reprized /usr/share/dict/british-english || echo "no reprized"
no reprized
]
Don Armstrong
1: Which isn't surprising, as the Latin root is color, so someone who
disagreed with the French borrowing would be likely to use the Latin
spelling instead.
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