On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, David Lang wrote: >> *1* David says "deltify" and Nico calls it "deltafy". I am not >> a native speaker so I cannot tell, but which one is correct? > > Nico is correct Au contraire. The common *pronunciation* may be 'delta-fy', but the correct spelling should be 'deltify'. The google oracle agrees (1,440 vs 54) as does the spelling of the svnadmin command. (Of course, what google is really measuring is relative frequency of 'git' vs 'svn'.) $ grep '[^if]fy$' /usr/dict/american-english-large shows that the only vowels other than 'i' which preced the '-fy' morpheme are 'e's, and they only appear in words like 'liquefy' where the root has been substantially altered. Most sources (eg http://www.southampton.liunet.edu/academic/pau/course/websuf.htm#IFYVERB ) list the morpheme as '-ify'. See http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=ify and compare http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=fy Contrary to David's assertion, David is right. --scott United Nations KMPLEBE AMTHUG AVBRANDY UNIFRUIT chemical agent tonight ZPSEMANTIC ODYOKE struggle PBCABOOSE FJDEFLECT CLOWER MKSEARCH ZRBRIEF ( http://cscott.net/ ) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Jun 02 06:18:24 2005
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