Re: The Java®,Language Specification. Type on page 33

[Gavin Bierman]

Hi Dzmitry,

Thanks for your email. In fact, if you look further in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet#Letter_names

You’ll see that in the table it gives both spellings for “L”, i.e. “el” or “ell”. It has a footnote for “ell” stating this is the US spelling. (I suspect this is why Leslie Lamport picked it for LaTeX.)

The rest of the JLS adopts US spellings always, so I propose that we keep to the “ell” spelling.

Best wishes,
Gavin

On 26 Jul 2024, at 23:17, Dzmitry Krakadzeyau <krakadzeyau at gmail.com> wrote:


Hi, Alex,

LaTeX is a cool tool but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L:

L, or l, is the twelfth letter<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_(alphabet)> of the Latin alphabet<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet>, used in the modern English alphabet<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet>, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is el<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet#Letter_names> (pronounced /ˈɛl/<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English> EL<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key>), plural els.

Reference:

"L" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989) Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. (1993)

I have Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989) and confirm that it mentions "el" but not "ell".


On 7/26/24 18:09, Alex Buckley wrote:
"ell" is used in US English for the name of the letter 'l'. See also \ell in LaTeX.

Alex

On 3/29/2024 5:02 PM, Dzmitry Krakadzeyau wrote:
Hi,

The document "/jls22.pdf/":

/Specification: JSR-397 Java SE 22
Version: 22
Status: Final Release
Release: March 2024
/

has a type on page 33:

/The suffix L is preferred, because the letter l (*ell*) is often hard to distinguish from the digit 1 (one)./

It must be "/letter l (*el*)/".

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Best regards,
Dzmitry Krakadzeyau


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Best regards,
Dzmitry Krakadzeyau

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