/ "Grosso, Paul" <pgro...@ptc.com> was heard to say: |> -----Original Message----- |> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bo...@sagehill.net] |> Sent: Monday, 2007 April 23 1:49 |> To: DocBook Technical Committee |> Cc: docb...@lists.oasis-open.org |> Subject: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting |> Agenda: 25 April 2007 |> |> a. Norm to add acknowledgements element to 5.0. | | There may be an issue regarding "acknowledgement" versus | "acknowledgment". I realize that the online docbook documentation at | http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/docbook.h | tml | uses the former, and I personally prefer the former, since one | would ordinarily think the g is hard in the latter. | | However, I feel obliged to point out that it appears to be a | substantial majority of uses prefer the latter spelling.

Ugh. I don't believe "acknowledgment" is a real word. :-)

But as Paul points out:

11 dictionaries for http://www.onelook.com/?w=acknowledgement&ls=a 27 for http://www.onelook.com/?w=acknowledgment&ls=a

Bah. I'll never spell it right without the third "e", but I'll probably never use the element, so I vote "concur" on the spelling :-)

Be seeing you, norm