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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