urlmon: Fix various typos/misspellings

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 20:08:59 CDT 2011


On 7/23/11 12:07 AM, Frédéric Delanoy wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 02:03, Andrew Eikum<andrew at brightnightgames.com>  wrote:
>> On 07/22/2011 06:49 PM, Frédéric Delanoy wrote:
>>> 2011/7/22 Dan Kegel<dank at kegel.com>:
>>>>> -/* List of 3 character top level domain names Windows seems to
>>>>> recognize.
>>>>> +/* List of 3 characters top level domain names Windows seems to
>>>>> recognize.
>>>> That change is incorrect.  In English, 'character' should be singular
>>>> there.
>>>> (This occurs twice in your patch.)
>>> Interesting. Could you pls give me pointers explaining this peculiar
>>> English grammar rule?
>> A "number-noun" adjective does not use the noun's plural form. Other
>> examples are "four-wheel drive," "seven-day trip" and "three-lane highway."
>> I think they're easier to read with hyphens, but it's really a matter of
>> preference.
>>
>> This is the best reference I could find:
>> http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/adjective.html
>>
>> Andrew
> OK thx. Guess there's a "-" missing as well.
Actually, if we could get away with it, the correct (grammar wise, not 
Windows wise is):

List of three-character top-level domain names Windows seams to recognize.

But I'm not doing the change and I don't know if this is something that 
AJ would approve anyway.

James




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