pedantry alert -- what is the proper spelling of "barebox"?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Fri Nov 16 06:33:05 EST 2012


On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Sascha Hauer wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 06:01:10AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   sascha already knows that i'm going to be poking around the wiki
> > documentation and doing some editing, so what is the proper spelling
> > of barebox, particularly in the middle of a sentence? i'm asking this
> > publicly so that others can see the answer in case they were going to
> > do any writing, for the sake of consistency.
> >
> >   for example, in the very first section of the wiki, it's spelled
> > both as "barebox" and "Barebox".  it really should be consistent.
>
> It's 'barebox'. barebox even has a small letter when at the
> beginning of a sentence. I'm normally after this, but espially
> office programs are sometimes hard to convince that this is correct.

  ok, thanks for the clarification, i'll even add that note to the
wiki early on.

rday


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