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On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com> wrote:

> On 07/21/2015 03:38 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com
>> <mailto:mkassawara at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     We should call these "weight" or "weights" to agree with every other
>>     technical thing that uses this concept.
>>
>>
>> It's the verb form that always gets crazy.
>>
>> Verb: weigh
>> Noun: weight
>>
>> Something that weighs: scale
>>
>> See what I mean? There's no such thing as a weigher or weighter except
>> in code and options in OpenStack.
>>
>
> I find both via google in dictonaries like:
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weighter
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weigher


This helps a little, because a weigher is a noun, so perhaps a rule "never
use weighter, use weigher" is the right answer.

Anne


>
>
> But that does not help me much either ;/
>
> Andreas
>
>  Anne
>>
>>     On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Atsushi SAKAI
>>     <sakaia at jp.fujitsu.com <mailto:sakaia at jp.fujitsu.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hello
>>
>>         I am looking around following document and find same two
>>         keywords are used on the document.
>>         Which word (weigher/weighter) is correct for this case?
>>
>>         for example
>>            GoodnessWeigher
>>            VolumeNumberWeigher scheduler_default_weighters
>>
>>         OpenStack Cloud Administrator Guide
>>         http://docs.openstack.org/draft/admin-guide-cloud-rst/
>>
>>         Thanks
>>         Atsushi SAKAI
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