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Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:07:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: el vs ell (Re: Static tracepoints support)
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> 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 /ˈɛl/) 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".