From owner-cvs-all Sun May 7 15: 0:44 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 332A337BEDB; Sun, 7 May 2000 15:00:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12oXqS-000Ln6-00; Sun, 07 May 2000 21:40:08 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12oXqR-000Ate-00; Sun, 07 May 2000 21:40:07 +0100 Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 21:40:07 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Dan Langille Cc: Warner Losh , Satoshi Asami , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX Message-ID: <20000507214007.Z79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000507211744.D3267@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200005071924.NAA72800@harmony.village.org> <200005071928.HAA04773@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200005071928.HAA04773@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Langille wrote: > Two theories: one is Pints and Quarts as in drinking (don't drink too > much etc), the other is that p and q are quite similar, so don't mix them > up or get them confused. I'd go with the second... I heard it was from old printing things when you had to manually put the different characters in place, people often got p and q mixed up as they're almost symmetrical. There are probably loads of other reasons people have made up. :-) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message