Re: [PATCH] scripts/spelling.txt: keep British spelling for "initalise"

[Randy Dunlap]

On 9/7/26 2:13 AM, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> These are the only two entries in the file that map a British spelling
> to an American one:
> 
>   initalised||initialized
>   initalise||initialize
> 
> doc-guide/checkpatch.rst asks that British and American spellings be
> left alone, so correcting the missing "i" should not also change the
> variety of English.  Following checkpatch here silently rewrites
> "initalised" to "initialized" in files that otherwise use British
> forms; arch/arm64 alone has 58 uses of "initialised" against 132 of
> "initialized", so both are clearly in use.
> 
> Map them to the British forms instead, so the misspelling is still
> caught while the spelling variety is left to the author.
> 
> Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
> Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks.

> ---
>  scripts/spelling.txt | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/spelling.txt b/scripts/spelling.txt
> index 3372873cd7bb..9ec2529bc584 100644
> --- a/scripts/spelling.txt
> +++ b/scripts/spelling.txt
> @@ -872,8 +872,8 @@ infromation||information
>  ingore||ignore
>  inheritence||inheritance
>  inital||initial
> -initalised||initialized
> -initalise||initialize
> +initalised||initialised
> +initalise||initialise
>  initalized||initialized
>  initalize||initialize
>  initation||initiation

-- 
~Randy