Bug 84438

Summary:	Spelling error
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	David Cozatt <yggsdrasil>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Jose Luis Rivero (yoswink) (RETIRED) <yoswink>
Status:	VERIFIED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/status/status_20050307.xml
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Cozatt 2005-03-07 14:06:02 UTC

"Audit the Existing Documentation

Verify if documentation is still valid, if no new way of handling things improves the situation, wether there are spelling mistakes, ... "

that is spelled "whether"

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.load page
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Comment 1 David Cozatt 2005-03-07 14:10:56 UTC

Argh,
 Jumped before I read further it seems to be pervasive in the document mentioned.

"Reintroduce Status Updates

Check who is part of the GDP and require a monthly status update. It seems that there are many developers "part" of GDP but their last action (wether commit, bug resolution or something else) happened a long time ago. "

Immediately following the first parenthesis.

Comment 2 Jose Luis Rivero (yoswink) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-16 03:21:19 UTC

Seems to be ok. All "whether" are right.
Thanks anyway.

Comment 3 David Cozatt 2005-03-17 09:59:58 UTC

Oh so it never happened? I never saw it? Bull crap. I pointed it out to my wife
amused by the sentence and the irony.

Comment 4 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-17 11:30:20 UTC

It did happen. I'm happy we helped you make your wife giggle :)
The author had already fixed it.
See for yourself at http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/gdp/status/status_20050307.xml?root=gentoo&rev=1.3&view=log

Comment 5 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-17 11:32:45 UTC

Yes, I've received an e-mail through www@g.o telling me about the real definition of "wether":

2 definitions found

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Wether \Weth"er\, n. [OE. wether, AS. we[eth]er; akin to OS.
     wethar, withar, a ram, D. weder, G. widder, OHG. widar, Icel.
     ve[eth]r, Sw. v["a]dur, Dan. v[ae]dder, Goth. wi[thorn]rus a
     lamb, L. vitulus calf, Skr. vatsa, L. vetus old, Gr. 'e`tos
     year; -- originally meaning, a yearling. Cf. {Veal},
     {Veteran}.]
     A castrated ram.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wether
       n : male sheep especially a castrated one