[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3586) More spelling fixes

["Gregory Berkolaiko" <Gregory.Berkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Jason Short wrote:

> 
> [rfalke - Sun Mar  2 17:29:09 2003]:
> 
> > 
> > A perl based very simple spell checker was recently posted to
> > linux-kernel:
> > 
> >   Date:   Sat, 1 Mar 2003 18:13:14 +0100 (CET)
> >   From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@xxxxxxx>
> >   To: Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx>
> >   cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >      Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >   Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker
> >   Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303011809300.30887-
> > 201000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The attached diff is the result of running it on the .h and .c files
> > and the whole doc/ and the files in the root dir.
> > 
> > I haven't checked it.
> 
> It doesn't look like it's made any incorrect changes, but it's certainly
> missed a lot.  For instance, it catches "transfering" but not
> "transfered".  (No, "transfere" isn't a word.)
> 
> A lot of the mistakes are very common:
> 
> - Choosen isn't a word; it's chosen.
> - Transferred and transferring have a double-R.
> - Occurred also has two r's.
> 
> I have often caught myself misspelling occurred (among other words)
> recently; perhaps it's because i've been reading the Freeciv        
> sources!

It also doesn't catch grammatical mistakes like "This function use linked 
lists".

G.