More typos

[Chad Burrus]

On 8/20/2008 8:27 AM, S. Heimberg wrote:
> [snip]
>>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:44:22 +0200, Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk>
>>>       
>> wrote:
>>     
>>>> "S. Heimberg" <simohe at besonet.ch> writes:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> I vote for corrections.
>>>>> But your last typo correction is wrong. Readd means to add again,
>>>>> not to read. Readd is correct.
>>>>>           
>>>> Ups! I guess I would spell it re-add, but I'm not a native speaker...
>>>>         
>>> So not me. Here is no dictionary. And www.leo.org does not know any
>>> spelling variant. Maybe re-add is correct.
>>>       
>> Don't know.
>>
>>     
>
> I do not know it either.
> Readd is in wictionary (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/readd). Word only
> accepts re-add.
> Can a native speaker help?
>
> Greetings,
> S. Heimberg
>   
I can't say which is correct conclusively (my normal sources don't have 
anything on either variant), but I think I would opt for "re-add" just 
because if you use "readd," most native speakers would assume you meant 
"read," IMO.

Chad Burrus
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