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NEWS: Avoid the words "nominative" and "genitive".
authorRafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 09:27:48 +0000 (11:27 +0200)
committerRafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 19:45:24 +0000 (21:45 +0200)
Glibc supports two grammatical forms of month names and we keep adding
the locale data which actually use this feature but those two forms are
not necessarily nominative and genitive.  It is better to use a more
generic term.

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b08fee64a6183b7a27511ece1e3a804990114ff7..c946ba2946215a85ae2e2a20cdf8bf3a843c6537 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -48,13 +48,14 @@ Major new features:
   - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
     fMxdivfNx functions.
 
-* Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the following
+* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
   languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
   Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon.  The following languages now
-  support abbreviated alternative month names: Catalan, Greek, and Kashubian.
+  support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
+  and Kashubian.
 
 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
-  include the support of the nominative and genitive month names.
+  include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
 
 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
   patches.