From owner-cvs-all Sun May 7 15:53:43 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6571137BA5E; Sun, 7 May 2000 15:53:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA41863; Sun, 7 May 2000 16:53:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id QAA73894; Sun, 7 May 2000 16:53:19 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005072253.QAA73894@harmony.village.org> To: Joe Karthauser Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX Cc: Ben Smithurst , Dan Langille , Satoshi Asami , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 23:11:01 BST." <20000507231101.L38795@pavilion.net> References: <20000507231101.L38795@pavilion.net> <20000507211744.D3267@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200005071924.NAA72800@harmony.village.org> <200005071928.HAA04773@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> <20000507214007.Z79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 16:53:19 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000507231101.L38795@pavilion.net> Joe Karthauser writes: : > 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. I'm truly surprised no one has posted a web site that explains the odd English idiums and where they came from yet. That's kinda why I said what I said. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message