Bug#1020574: perl-doc: encoding issue / spelling mistake with "perldoc perlfaq4"

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Fri Sep 23 18:17:09 BST 2022


Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> writes:

> naïvely (and naïve) are correct alternate spellings in English.  English
> historically uses a diaeresis to indicate that two adjacent vowels form
> separate syllables rather than a diphthong.  This is one of the only
> "native" accept marks in the English language, which otherwise only uses
> accept marks in loan words and tends to drop them.

I have no idea how I typed accept twice instead of accent, other than the
curse that any discussion of picky points of spelling and punctuation
contains spelling and punctuation errors.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>




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