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Fix typos #1165

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Naming .jvmopts is a material change. Also, TIL. (https://discord.com/channels/632277896739946517/632277897448652844/1170129958081933312)

"Supersede" means "sitting" like "sedentary".

It's too bad we never got a text editor called supersed.

I almost forgot that I can link info in the internet age.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/supersede
https://www.etymonline.com/word/precede

@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ The following system properties can also be passed to `sbt`:
<td><tt>sbt.color</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td><tt>auto</tt></td>
<td>Supercedes <tt>sbt.log.format</tt>.
<td>Supersedes <tt>sbt.log.format</tt>.
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Funny. Dale used to spell this word as superseed, I'd spell as supercede, and neither of us could spell!

https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=supersede&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 says

The spelling with a c has been in existence for 300 years and has traditionally been considered an error, but it appears so widely in books and other edited publications that this spelling must be considered standard.

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Normally I'm not normative.

@eed3si9n eed3si9n merged commit 3487d4e into sbt:develop Nov 4, 2023
@som-snytt som-snytt deleted the doc/tweak-jvmopts branch November 5, 2023 01:53
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