Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 09:46:16 -0600 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@cokane.org> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Rong-En Fan <rafan@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/top commands.c machine.h top.X top.c Message-ID: <1179416776.1142.12.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070517110808.GA24532@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200705041542.l44Fgwsq012507@repoman.freebsd.org> <86lkfnu9ga.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070517110808.GA24532@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 12:08 +0100, David Malone wrote: > 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. Heh that's a good one. It took me a moment to figure out what this "Pixie Boot" was that everyone kept talking about. I still insist upon calling it P-X-E, though. -- Coleman Kane
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