From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:22:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Improve wording in a comment
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On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Sebastian Schuberth
<sschuberth@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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" :-)

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth