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If weigh is the verb and weight is the noun, then it seems that the word for"one who/that weighs" would be "weigher" -- similar to writer and eater andthrower and many, many others.
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      From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com>
 To: Anne Gentle <annegentle at justwriteclick.com>; Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com> 
Cc: "openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org" <openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org> 
 Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 6:57 AM
 Subject: Re: [OpenStack-docs] Question about which keyword should use?(weigher/weighter)
   
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

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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