Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!colin
From: colin@pdn.UUCP (Colin Kendall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: But what about kernel printfs?
Keywords: printf,UNIX,kernel
Message-ID: <3181@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 14:22:44 GMT
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In article <941@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>, ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> 
> Yes, it's kernel with two "e"s.  According to Webster's II:
> "kernel ... 3: The most material and central part."
> 
> "-al" and "-ar" in English are morphemes connoting "pertaining to"
> which form adjectives, so "kernal" would be an adjective meaning
> "pertaining to an Irish or Scottish foot soldier (a kern)".

Hence similarly:
 "vial", "pertaining to a popular Unix editor"
 "sisal", "pertaining to a female sibling"
 "radar", "pertaining to a dosage of radiation"
 "heal", "pertaining to a man"
 etc.

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