el vs ell (Re: Static tracepoints support)

Pedro Alves
2010-07-01T13:50:02Z

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 /ˈɛl/) is spelled el or occasionally ell.[1]"

So, which one should we use? Is this an American English vs other
flavours issue?

--
Pedro Alves