From: Phil Pennock <Phil.Pennock@globnix.org>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Zsh Guide chapter 5 (substitutions)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:35:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010820203535.A631@globnix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1010820182638.ZM20357@candle.brasslantern.com>; from schaefer@brasslantern.com on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 06:26:38PM +0000
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On 2001-08-20 at 18:26 +0000, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> There are a couple of minor typos in the first few paragraphs about glob
> qualifiers: "usual" for "usually" and "t((%b))" for "((%b))". Also,
> "whackier" -- on this side of the pond we spell it without the "h", but
> maybe this is a "colour programme" sort of thing.
I've never seen it as "whacky" and I'm from the side which doesn't even
pretend to have a democracy.
However:
<http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?db=*&term=whacky>
lists it as an alternate spelling, and notes that the word is probably
derived from "out of whack".
--
It was only after their numbers had been reduced from 50 to 8 that
the other 7 dwarves began to suspect Hungry. - Far Side
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-20 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-15 23:00 Peter Stephenson
2001-08-16 2:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-08-17 16:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-08-20 18:26 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-08-20 18:35 ` Phil Pennock [this message]
2001-08-21 16:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-08-21 14:21 ` Richard Curnow
2001-08-21 15:34 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-08-22 17:10 martin.ebourne
2001-08-23 7:30 ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-08-23 7:41 ` Borsenkow Andrej
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