From 392fe36dd27032468d22e9faff8fc240ee16d7a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hemanth Selam Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 14:43:24 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] scripts/spelling.txt: keep British spelling for "initalise" 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. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260907091324.32211-1-hemanth.selam@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5 Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Jonathan Corbet --- 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