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"cumulated" or "accumulated"
From: |
Jens Petersen |
Subject: |
"cumulated" or "accumulated" |
Date: |
Sun, 6 Feb 2011 23:18:49 -0500 (EST) |
Hi,
I received a downstream bug report [1], suggesting
that gettext should use the word "accumulated"
instead of "cumulated".
$ cd ~/src/gettext
$ find . -type f | xargs grep -nH -e " cumulated" | grep -v \.po
./gettext-tools/doc/msguniq.texi:15:comments will be cumulated, except that if
@samp{--use-first} is
./gettext-tools/doc/msguniq.texi:17:will be cumulated. When using the
@samp{--unique} option, duplicates are
./gettext-tools/doc/msgcat.texi:15:comments and extract comments will be
cumulated, except that if
./gettext-tools/src/msguniq.c:336:and extracted comments will be cumulated,
except that if --use-first is\n\
./gettext-tools/src/msguniq.c:338:will be cumulated. When using the --unique
option, duplicates are discarded.\n\
./gettext-tools/src/msgcat.c:378:comments and extract comments will be
cumulated, except that if --use-first\n\
In current English the verb "cumulate" seems little used outside
Economics, and the word "accumulator" is more common in hardware,
software, etc. Is "cumulated" being used intentionally
or would you accept a patch to change it to "accumulated"?
Thanks, Jens
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675225
- "cumulated" or "accumulated",
Jens Petersen <=