[darcs-users] darcs patch: Typo: Workaround.hs is in src/. (and 1 more)

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 10:41:20 UTC 2008


On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:41:59AM +0100, Eric Kow wrote:
> Fix grammatical error "a unique" on homepage and elsewhere.
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> > Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>**20080919063601] hunk ./doc/index.html.in 53
> > - -          based on a unique algebra of patches. </p>
> > +          based on an unique algebra of patches. </p>
> > hunk ./src/darcs.lhs 242
> > - -given a unique identifier consisting of the patch name, its creator's email
> > +given an unique identifier consisting of the patch name, its creator's email
> 
> These don't sound right to me :-D  Except if I keep saying them to
> myself over and over again to get used to it.

After I sent the patch, I wondered about that myself.  I'm guessing
it's a received pronunciationism[0] to say stuff like "an unique" and
"an hotel", but I don't have a reference handy.

[0] That's the accent traditionally used by BBC.


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