Re: 'u' Obselete type – it is identical to 'd'. (7)

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Tue Feb 24 20:04:30 EST 2009


On Feb 25, 11:32 am, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s... at benfinney.id.au>
wrote:
> John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> writes:
> > On Feb 25, 9:06 am, Steven D'Aprano <st... at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > > I don't know what you want to report, but I've reported that obsolete is
> > > mispelled:
>
> > +1 Own Goal of the Year ... see
> >  http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html
>
> Not so notable. It's merely one more incident of the law of
> communication variously known as McKean's Law, Skitt's Law, and
> Muphry's Law <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law>.

Those incidents are mundane and ordinary IMHO compared with
misspelling both "misspelled" and "misspelling" in the bug report.




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