Re: s/rewinded/rewound/?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: s/rewinded/rewound/?
Date: 2019-08-07 15:49:26
Message-ID: 2800.1565192966@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 10:49 AM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> The word "rewinded" appears in our manual and in a comment. That
>> sounds strange to my ears. Isn't it a mistake?

Certainly.

> To me this sounds like a classic non-English-native-speaker-mistake. But
> it seems at least the one in the docs come from Bruce, who definitely is...

He might've just been committing somebody else's words without having
reviewed carefully.

regards, tom lane

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