James Cloos wrote:
"Andi" == Andi Kleen <[email protected]> writes:
- /* Reenable any watchpoints before delivering the
+ /* Re-enable any watchpoints before delivering the
Andi> reenable gets >140k google hits so it seems to be an really
Andi> used word.
Well you will find extensive "misuse" of all the re-e* words in
english, but all should be hyphenated. Moreover, there is no
license in english to just create new such words, you cannot
re-entertain your guests for example. In practice we do allow
creation of new re-e* words, as in re-execute, and that's
probably ok in techno-jargon-speak.
But re-enable is an old and well used word, reenable is not,
and I see no reason to encourage the latter incorrect use,
since it is harder to read (double e after r at the start
of the word is almost always a long e).
Note that in google, you always want to hyphenate. reenable
will catch only the misuses, re-enable will catch both.
Essentially all commonly used English words which start out with hyphens
loose them over time. It starts out with typos and progresses until the
non-hyphenated form becomes the exclusively used form. It does seem that
re-enable → reenable is occurring, based on those search hits.
Hyphens do sometimes disappear, but not for re-e*, OED version
2 does not allow a single such instance.
Andi> Similar with upto.
I’ve a *much* harder time agreeing with «upto» in place of «up to».
That should be treated as a typo in need of fixing.
Indeed .. upto is not a word.
-JimC
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