RE: [PATCH v2] Spelling comments/text

["Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>]

> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richardson@intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, 7 January 2022 16.29
> 
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 03:58:27PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 07/01/2022 12:23, Bruce Richardson:
> > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 05:52:49PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > 29/11/2021 17:08, Josh Soref:
> > > > > -        * dequeueing once we've filled up the queue, we have
> to benchmark it
> > > > > +        * dequeuing once we've filled up the queue, we have to
> benchmark it
> > > >
> > > > I think "dequeueing" is correct.
> > > >
> > > Well, we have "queue" and "queuing" so therefore I would expect the
> "e" to
> > > be similarly dropped from the "dequeue" version.
> >
> > When looking on Internet, queueing is preffered over queuing.
> > 	https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/queueing
> > 	https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/60852/queueing-or-
> queuing
> > Best justification: five vowels in a row!
> >
> > Why English people cannot agree on how to write words?

Because they have two different dictionaries: US English and British English. E.g. "color" is correct in one territory, while "colour" is correct in another territory.

> 
> Being Irish, I'm not sure I can answer that! :-)
> 
> My preference here is the shorter "queuing" version suggested, and it
> was
> what dictionary.com suggested under "queue" entry. My preference is
> largely
> based on consistency with other words which end in "ue":
> "argue" -> "arguing", "accrue" -> "accruing".

Being somewhat a language nerd, I would like to know your opinions about "aging" vs. "ageing", in the context of timing out obsolete entries in e.g. a MAC table?

Or is "ageing" an action, and "aging" a state?

> 
> > Let's all use French, it's simpler :)
> >
> I don't think I have enough accent keys on my keyboard :-)