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

Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-01T17:07:04Z

> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:49:53 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> 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?

I don't know about flavors, but every instance I saw used "ell".