Am Dienstag 26 April 2011 11:25:58 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Stefan Weil <w...@mail.berlios.de> wrote: > > Replace writeable -> writable > > Why make this change? writeable and writable are both commonly used > spellings.
It seems like "writeable" is the commonly used term in computer sciences and "writable" is the normal english adjective formed from "to write" + "-able" in general English.[1] As we are refering to computer science related "writeable" it should be left as is imho. But as I'm no native speaker, you might feel different on this. On a side note: Samba offers both spellings as valid for thier configuration files. [2] [1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/writeable [2] http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=22258.0 With regards, Dipl. Phys. Jan M. Simons Institute of Crystallography RWTH Aachen University
