Re: s/rewinded/rewound/?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: s/rewinded/rewound/?
Date: 2019-08-07 15:59:44
Message-ID: 20190807155943.GA2917@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2019-Aug-07, Tom Lane wrote:

> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:

> > To me this sounds like a classic non-English-native-speaker-mistake. But
> > it seems at least the one in the docs come from Bruce, who definitely is...
>
> He might've just been committing somebody else's words without having
> reviewed carefully.

The commit message for 878bd9accb55 doesn't mention that. He didn't
add a mailing list reference, but this is easy to find at
https://postgr.es/m/20160720180706.GF24559@momjian.us
I lean towards the view that he was using the literal program name as a
verb, rather than trying to decline a verb normally. Note that the word
"rewound" did not appear in that SGML source when he committed that;
that was only introduced in bfc80683ce51 three years later.

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