From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Aug 7 13:26: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from meow.lab.nuxi.com (meow.lab.nuxi.com [66.123.5.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC5337B40A for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:26:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chern@meow.lab.nuxi.com) Received: from localhost (chern@localhost) by meow.lab.nuxi.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f77KPFR01353; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:25:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chern@meow.lab.nuxi.com) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:25:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Chern Lee To: Jim Mock Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot chapter.sgml doc/en_U In-Reply-To: <20010807004620.A52833@helios.soupnazi.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It might and probably should be operating systems, but this is just one instance, and at the time I was just expanding OSs, which should be OSes or something of the like. In the context used, it reads "Unix OSs." Figuring that Unix is a proper noun, and it is referring to all Unix variants, Unix Operating Systems seems somewhat correct. Perhaps "Unix operating systems" is the way to go, but whatever the capitalization, it's still better than "Unix OSs." - chern On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Jim Mock wrote: > On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 at 09:44:50 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 14:25:28 MST, Chern Lee wrote: > > > > > Log: > > > Spelling Changes: > > > * OSs -> Operating Systems > > > > Why is this done in studly case? An operating system is a common noun > > (well, actually an adjective and a noun). > > I've gotta agree with Sheldon here. There's no real reason to > capitalize it. > > - jim > > -- > jim mock tech writer | iXsystems, Inc. > http://soupnazi.org/ work: jim@ixsystems.net | jim@FreeBSD.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message