[plug] KDE en_GB i18n question!

[John Knight]

That's answered a few questions that i've always had, interesting. I favour 
journalling at this point in time, any objections (or supporters)?

>
>On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 11:31:55PM +0800, John Knight wrote:
> > Is it really correct under British English (not in computing terms)? If 
>it
> > is journalling under pommy speak, would you have objections to us 
>changing
> > it? If there's some more people around that are also language inclined,
> > please answer up.
>
>Notions of 'correctness' are always suspect in language, but the usual
>en_UK formation for words ending in '-l' would be -lling. Think of:
>
>marshalling forces (not usually marshaling)
>barrelling along (not usually barreling)
>duelling (not dueling)
>
>As opposed to 'smiling' ('smile' does not end in '-l')
>
>Then there's this:
>http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=journalling
>
>as opposed to:
>http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=journaling
>
>... which is not found.
>
>And you may want to look at:
>http://www.xrefer.com/entry/594794
>Which says:
>"Words in final -l are usually treated differently from those ending in
>most other final consonants in that, in British English, in inflected
>forms, the -l is doubled irrespective of the position of the accent."
>[...]
>And in case you wonder:
>"The doubling rule does not apply when the l is preceded by a double
>vowel or a vowel + consonant, e.g. ai, ea, ee, oi, ow, ur, as in
>failed, squealed, peeled, boiled, howled, curled."
>
>Colin
>


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