Remove socioeconomic entries #3353
Conversation
970c3f7 to
e7e26ae
Compare
|
References are missing (links to mainstream curated dictionaries and SCOWLS). |
|
From SCOWLS:
|
|
But then most mainstream curated dictionaries accept both, with |
|
Finally, Google Ngram Viewer does show |
|
This is confusing. Perhaps we should accept both and remove these lines. |
socio-economic: see codespell-project/codespell#3353 for shiftIN is a function name so safe to ignore. Signed-off-by: Frederic Pillon <frederic.pillon@st.com>
socio-economic: see codespell-project/codespell#3353 for shiftIN is a function name so safe to ignore. Signed-off-by: Frederic Pillon <frederic.pillon@st.com>
Original motivation is from constantly running into this while detecting typos with codespell. FTR, to codespell this "typo" was added within codespell-project/codespell#3280 and here is "recent" discussion on likely allowing both forms: codespell-project/codespell#3353 but giving more arguments. It is true that "socio-economic" is also known and generally considered correct. But if someone goes to https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socio-economic it does list it as "socioeconomic" and examples follow the version without the dash. So it seems to be the prevalent version, and thus why not to use it instead? .it and .ro might (or not) want to adopt too? ❯ git grep socio-economic # filtered from non translated, repeated content/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.ro.md:statut socio-economic, naționalitate, aspect fizic, rasă, religie, identitate sau orientare sexuală. content/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.it.md:socio-economico, nazionalità, aspetto, razza, casta, colore della pelle,
|
FWIW, one of the most common pain points encountering this is https://github.com/EthicalSource/contributor_covenant so I have proposed One way or another, it would be nice if codespell and covenant played together nicely. Since covenant already adopted by many projects, the easiest course of action would be for codespell to generally allow for |
|
Agreed. @isaak654 Would you be willing to remove the |
|
Thank you @isaak654 for this PR and your patience. |
In American English, the term "socioeconomic" is typically written as a single word. However, in British English, it is also acceptable to use the hyphenated form "socio-economic", so it should not be considered an error.