docs/70920: [PATCH] fix couple typos && s/words/entities (handbook preface)

[Jesus R. Camou]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:15:44PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:46:16PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:49:12AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:35:30AM +0100, Tom Hukins wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Me too, but I'm English and we write our documentation in American, so
> > > > we should consider 'travelled' a typo.
> > > 
> > > This is one of the harder ones to nail down.  Most of the American/English
> > > spelling issues at least have "one correct" American spelling but for
> > > this one both spellings seem to be "accepted" in American writing.
> > > 
> > > I went through this a couple months ago with Ceri for "labeled" versus
> > > "labelled" - both seem to be tolerated widely.  It's hard to decide
> > > on "one central authority" to help with determining what's right.
> > > 
> > > That said, is there something we could as a project decide is close
> > > enough to being a central authority?  Properties of such a thing would
> > > be easy accesibility (preferrably for free :-) on a global basis since
> > > we have lots of people all over the world contributing to the primary
> > > American-ese docs.  Having something like that could help avoid a lot
> > > of bikesheds-to-be... :-)
> > 
> > The Chicago Manual of Style covers which word to use in these cases, and
> > I will check it when I get home.
> 
> It seems that I'm mistaken; there is no such list in my CMS.  I was
> thinking of Scriptorium:
> http://www.scriptorium.com/Standards/probhome.html#HEADING27
> 
> Also, "traveled" is the canonical term according to Webster's, so we
> should go with that.

Good. I will attach a patch for this.

Thanks.

-- 
Jesus R. Camou <jcamou at COX.net>


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     to explore, and the ability to take on board new concepts as they
     are introduced.</para>
 
-  <para>Once you have travelled this far, the second, far larger,
+  <para>Once you have traveled this far, the second, far larger,
     section of the Handbook is a comprehensive reference to all manner
     of topics of interest to FreeBSD system administrators.  Some of
     these chapters may recommend that you do some prior reading, and