[Build-common-hackers] Bug#375152: Misspelling of "non-empty" as "nonemtpy"

Matt Kraai kraai at ftbfs.org
Sat Jun 24 01:22:11 UTC 2006


eOn Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:24:47PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Matt Kraai wrote:
> > There is a misspelling of "non-empty" as "nonemtpy" in the cdbs
> > documentation.  The attached patch fixes it.
> 
> "nonempty" is the correct spelling.  "non-empty" is wrong.

OK.  I looked it up on Wikipedia and it contained both, so I went with
what seemed to be preferred there.  How do you know when to use a
hyphen and when not to?

-- 
Matt
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