Re: [PATCH] Fix misspelling in flyspell.el

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 21:46:30 +0000
>> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> > -	(message "No more miss-spelled word!"))))
>> > +        (message "No more misspelled words!"))))
>>  
>> >  ;;*---------------------------------------------------------------------*/
>> >  ;;*    flyspell-overlay-p ...                                           */
>> > -- 
>> > 2.6.2
>> 
>> I think there's a good chance that that missssspelling is deliberate, a
>> little joke, something to irritate people slightly with.  It would be a
>> shame to correct it.
>
> Given the person who wrote that code, I agree with Alan.

Since flyspell isn't a grammar checker, I'd still advocate replacing
"word" with "words" in the message.  "No more ... word!" seems like
stretching the concept of the joke.

-- 
David Kastrup