bug#10150: deactive->inactive, inactivate->deactivate spelling fixes

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> Standard English uses the adjective "inactive" and the verb
> "deactivate"; "deactive" and "inactivate" are solecisms.

Actually, at least the Longman Dictionary of the English Language (2nd
ed. 1991) contains

inactivate vt to make inactive - inactivation n

without any kind of restriction in usage or register.

Wolfgang