Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:08:08 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Rong-En Fan <rafan@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/top commands.c machine.h top.X top.c Message-ID: <20070517110808.GA24532@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <86lkfnu9ga.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200705041542.l44Fgwsq012507@repoman.freebsd.org> <86lkfnu9ga.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:43:17AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > Rong-En Fan <rafan@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > Log: > > - s/jail id/jail ID/, acronyms should be in uppercase in general. Also, > > it is written this way in jail(8). > ID is not an acronym, it is an abbreviation of "identifier". This gets some discussion on the Grammar Girl blog. ID is slightly unusual because it should probably be written "Id." and might be said "Id" not "eye-dee". Thus it has aspects of an acronym (it looks like one and is pronounced like one), but isn't actually formed from initials. (Of course, if something is an acronym or an initialism depends a bit on what dialect you speak. For me, PXE was an initialism, and I was rather suprised to discover that is was an acronym in Californian ;-) David.
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