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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Improve wording in a comment

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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
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Feb 5, 2015, 19:22 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> Is that an improvement?  Is the plural of "dup" (used as an
>> abbreviation of "duplicate") "dupes" not "dups"?
>
> My view is that the abbreviation of "duplicate" is not "dup" but
> "dupe", hence the plural "dupes".

For "duplicate" the noun, that is. For "duplicate" the verb I'd be ok with "dup" as the abbreviation. "to dup" sounds and looks better than "to dupe" :-)

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Sebastian Schuberth
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