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Disallow "No-GIL" from the glossary of specific words #1353

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The Steering Council, on accepting PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython), said:

We want to avoid negatives in terms and flags and such, so we won’t get into double-negative terrain (like we do when we talk about ‘non no-GIL’). We’d like a positive, clear term to talk about the no-GIL build, and we’re suggesting ‘free-threaded’. (Relatedly, that’s why the build mode/ABI letter is ‘t’ and not ‘n’; that change was already made.)

"No-GIL" comes up regularly; shall we add this to the style guide so we have something to point to beyond the lengthy acceptance message?

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