From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:19:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Improve wording in a comment
Message-ID: <CAHGBnuPhXWXp+OfGsX4i5xOJK81qqua8cp2fDPb76HgaU5C0ww@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr3u4kw13.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
>> ---
>
> 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".

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth