Re: staves not staffs

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Thursday 07 August 2003 10:35 am, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> > In the manual "cheat sheet".
> >
> > I guess you just have to search and replace
> > staffs with staves once in a while.  Why does
> > this keep happening?  It might not hurt to
> > put in the glossary that staves is the plural
> > of staff.
>
> Yes,
>
> or I could just type away, and wait for you guys to find all the
> errors (works like a charm :-).
>
> Fixed now in CVS.

I forgot to mention that the singular "stave" is perfectly
ok.  It's in the HDM as "Staff or stave".  Oops--Where's
the glossary?
>
> > "The Name is Pond" is fun for a while.  DaveA
>
> (?)
>
> Is this positive or negative (i.e. it gets cheesy after a while?)

Someone else criticized it somewhat harshly, otherwise I would
have written nothing.  I would be disappointed if it were still
there years from now is all.  It's fine now.  I like it.  Wait until it 
begins to stink before you roll it over.  DaveA

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