Opinion sought

[venta]

[Poll #230701]

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[wimble.livejournal.com]

And, somewhere, I've got documentation to prove it. 'fraid I've no longer got access to my usual references.

[venta.livejournal.com]

beckyc -- This should be a ticky box so I can pick the top three. 1 and 2 would mean subtly different things.

Could you elaborate on that ? What would be the difference between endianity and endianness ?

[arralethe.livejournal.com]

Surely the adjective already comes from a noun, therefore extending it into another noun is purely bad grammar?

[waistcoatmark.livejournal.com]

It's always verbally referred to as endianness wherever I've worked, and a quick google shows that the double-n spelling is 4 times more prevalent than the single-n.

[(Anonymous)]

Seems to me both "endianity" and "endianness" are correct, but there's no reason in the world why you couldn't just write "byte order".

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Richard

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Ah, Iwas confused. 'Endian', I thought, already is a noun; it's wither a little endian, or abig endian, and it's someone who believes that the egg should be big or little way up, as appropriate. I'm not very awake.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I've always thought there should be a word "Displayment"

(And how about Pompousness/pomposity - those are *real* words - do you use both?)

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

The comments in this thread about words people would like to see reminds me about the tale of a Belgian official, whose name I do not remember, describing some great Euro cock-up as a "misunderstandment".