- From: Ms2ger <ms2ger@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:56:16 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 03/15/2012 11:46 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Sylvain Galineau > <sylvaing@microsoft.com> wrote: >> Well, fwiw, I don't think it's clear English at all. I've never seen this word >> spelled this way, every spell-checker I have on hand flags it and I've never >> heard anyone say it that way either. It can't be clear if it's going to look >> like a distracting typo to everyone but the editor. And I suspect it will... > > Dictionaries vary. "axises" is recognized in at least a few, and a > quick google search finds many people (speaking normal English) using > the word as I do. The W3C Spell Checker [1] suggested by the W3C Manual of Style [2] doesn't complain about it, that's good enough for me. (It did notice you use both "Javascript" and "JavaScript", though.) HTH Ms2ger [1] http://www.w3.org/2002/01/spellchecker?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.w3.org%2Fcsswg%2Fcss3-images%2F&lang=en_US [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/06/manual/#Spelling
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