Topic on Help talk:New filters for edit review/Filtering

Trafford09 (talkcontribs)

Ok, so this to some people is petty, but it's oh so easy to 'fix'!

Please humour me (but it's an honest & serious point).

I'd love to see the filters' descriptions use the word 'probably', instead of 'likely',

so that it doesn't jar to anybody's eyes, for the following reasons:

On the UK side of the pond, the word 'likely':

  • is used mostly as an adjective - "The likely outcome is poverty.".
  • is used as an adverb only when preceded by 'more', 'most' or 'very' - "He most likely forgot"; "She will very likely lose her deposit.".
  • And so the British use the word 'probably' when an adverb is needed.

However, on the US side of the pond, the words 'likely' and 'probably' are used interchangeably?

Hence, British readers would expect to see "[Edits that are] Probably good faith",

rather than "[Edits that are] Likely good faith".

Yes, it matters not to US readers, but why not use 'probably' instead of 'likely',

which is fine for the US and British too?

Thanks for your time, and I hope somebody can make this simple change.

Yours, 'Trafford09', 15:31 GMT, on 21st Sept. 2018.

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