On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 01:29:00PM +0400, Nick Permyakov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I might be nitpicking, but the sentence "This will take awhile..." at
> the bottom of http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html doesn't seem very
> grammatical to me. I'd suggest fixing it to read "...take a while...".
>
> Best regards,
> Nick Permyakov
>
i thought it sounded strange too, so i looked it up. from collins
cobuild:
awhile: "Awhile" means for a short time. It is more commonly
spelled `a while', which is considered more correct, especially
in British English.
so i don;t think there's anything wrong with it, as such. having said
that, it's written in the context of a make build. i wonder whether the
author really wanted to suggest a short time ;)
jmc
