Re: el vs ell (Re: Static tracepoints support)

Michael Snyder
2010-07-01T16:26:17Z

Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Monday 28 June 2010 13:26:38, Pedro Alves wrote:
>>>> +query), until the target responds with @samp{l} (lower-case el, for
>>>> +@dfn{last}). ^^
>>> "ell"
>> Thanks. This was copied from elsewhere. I'll audit those as well
>> after this is in.
>>
>
> As promised.. There is only one other instance of "el" or "ell" in
> the manuals or sources I could find (cd gdb; egrep " el(l)?(,|\.| )" * -rn),
> and it was the one I copied from. I was going to fix it, but, I noticed
> that <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L> says:
>
> "L is the twelfth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in
> English (play /ËˆÉ›l/) is spelled el or occasionally ell.[1]"
>
> So, which one should we use? Is this an American English vs other
> flavours issue?
>

You could just say "lower-case 'L'"...