[PATCH v2] Spelling comments/text

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 05:27:55PM +0100, Morten Brørup wrote:
> > From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richardson at intel.com]
> > Sent: Friday, 7 January 2022 16.29
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 03:58:27PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > 07/01/2022 12:23, Bruce Richardson:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 05:52:49PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > > 29/11/2021 17:08, Josh Soref:
> > > > > > -        * dequeueing once we've filled up the queue, we have
> > to benchmark it
> > > > > > +        * dequeuing once we've filled up the queue, we have to
> > benchmark it
> > > > >
> > > > > I think "dequeueing" is correct.
> > > > >
> > > > Well, we have "queue" and "queuing" so therefore I would expect the
> > "e" to
> > > > be similarly dropped from the "dequeue" version.
> > >
> > > When looking on Internet, queueing is preffered over queuing.
> > > 	https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/queueing
> > > 	https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/60852/queueing-or-
> > queuing
> > > Best justification: five vowels in a row!
> > >
> > > Why English people cannot agree on how to write words?
> 
> Because they have two different dictionaries: US English and British English. E.g. "color" is correct in one territory, while "colour" is correct in another territory.
> 
> > 
> > Being Irish, I'm not sure I can answer that! :-)
> > 
> > My preference here is the shorter "queuing" version suggested, and it
> > was
> > what dictionary.com suggested under "queue" entry. My preference is
> > largely
> > based on consistency with other words which end in "ue":
> > "argue" -> "arguing", "accrue" -> "accruing".
> 
> Being somewhat a language nerd, I would like to know your opinions about "aging" vs. "ageing", in the context of timing out obsolete entries in e.g. a MAC table?
> 
> Or is "ageing" an action, and "aging" a state?
> 
This is all starting to make my head hurt, because everything is so
irregular! In this case I would have tended toward ageing with the "e", and
from some quick googling, it appears that this is the more common spelling
outside north america. However, unlike queuing, I really don't have strong
feelings about the spelling of ag(e)ing. [On the other hand, given my
current age, I have very strong feelings of dislike about the concept of
ageing itself! :-)]

/Bruce