Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] Fix ty po in code and comments

[Jan Marten Simons]

Am Dienstag 26 April 2011 11:25:58 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Replace writeable -> writable
> 
> Why make this change?  writeable and writable are both commonly used
> spellings.

It seems like "writeable" is the commonly used term in computer sciences and 
"writable" is the normal english adjective formed from "to write" + "-able" in 
general English.[1]

As we are refering to computer science related "writeable" it should be left 
as is imho. But as I'm no native speaker, you might feel different on this.
On a side note: Samba offers both spellings as valid for thier configuration 
files. [2]

[1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/writeable
[2] http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=22258.0

With regards,

 Dipl. Phys.
  Jan M. Simons
 
Institute of Crystallography
RWTH Aachen University