From owner-cvs-all Sun May 7 15:14: 1 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C80B37BA67; Sun, 7 May 2000 15:13:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (genesis.tao.org.uk [194.242.131.254]) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA73913; Sun, 7 May 2000 23:10:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 01A56376; Sun, 7 May 2000 23:11:02 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 23:11:01 +0100 From: Joe Karthauser To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Dan Langille , Warner Losh , Satoshi Asami , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX Message-ID: <20000507231101.L38795@pavilion.net> References: <20000507211744.D3267@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200005071924.NAA72800@harmony.village.org> <200005071928.HAA04773@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> <20000507214007.Z79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000507214007.Z79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk on Sun, May 07, 2000 at 09:40:07PM +0100 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 09:40:07PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > 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. :-) There's a similar one about dotting the i's and crossing the t's. I wonder whether they originated at around the same time. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message