Re: [Freeciv-Dev] space-ship or spaceship?

[Mitch Davis <mjd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Falk Hueffner wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> while doing the beginning of the spacerace patches, I looked up
> "spaceship" in the dictionary and found out it is actually spelled
> "space-ship", so I used that in the docs. Now somebody has made lots
> of patches to change all of them back into spaceships :)
> 
> Can somebody with a good dictionary please check the correct spelling?

I've forgotten the name for it, but there's a linguistic
transformation where two words become one, eg, originally
people ate ice cream.  Then they moved to ice-cream.  Nowadays,
no-one thinks twice about eating icecream.

So I think while there's nothing wrong with space ship, space-ship
or spaceship, I think we should standardise (or is that standardize?)
on the latter.

Just my two cents worth.

Regards,

Mitch.
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