funny enough, i took a short break from the book i'm reading to check email and read this message. returning to the book i read this sentence:
"We picked the twelfth and thirteenth of July, but for awhile the issue was in some doubt." :) --patrick On Sunday, February 17, 2013, Jason McIntyre wrote: > 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 > >
