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From: David Schultz <das@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2003, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 11:58:52 -0700
> David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > > seanc       2003/04/09 08:22:32 PDT
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD doc repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml mailing-lists.ent 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Various cleanups, corrections, and enhancements to the mailing list entities.
> > >   
> > >   - replace all '&a.mailman.listinfo;/freebsd-xxx' with '&a.xxx.url;'
> > >   - replace freebsd-aic7xxx with aic7xxx (link)
> > >   - remove non-existent links (cvs-committers, freebsd-core,
> > >     freebsd-developers, doc-committers, ports-committers, src-committers)
> > >   - use &os.current; and &os.stable; entities
> > >   - replace freebsd-cvs* with cvs* (name and link)
> > >   - replace CVS Web with CVSweb
> > >   - replace filesystem with file system
> >               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > ISTR someone making a sweep to convert things the other way a
> > few months ago.  ;-)
> > 
> 
> Ok, whatever ISTR means (I seem to remember?).  That was myself,
> then after a large discussion came about, we decided that it
> should be `file system'.

Well, just as long as you're consistent.  I suspect the term will
take the 'data base' -> 'database' route eventually as it gets
absorbed into the language, but both speelings seem to be in
common use at the moment.