urlmon: Fix various typos/misspellings

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 20:10:05 CDT 2011


On 7/23/11 12:29 AM, Austin English wrote:
> 2011/7/23 Frédéric Delanoy<frederic.delanoy at gmail.com>:
>> 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.
>>
>> Frédéric
>>
>>
>>
> It's optional, but does make it a bit clearer to non-native English speakers.
>
s/seams/seems/g...

James




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