Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 19:57:03 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.org>, chat@FreeBSD.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <p05111722b90de01cc974@[10.9.8.215]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:05:21AM %2B0200 References: <200205162121.g4GLLGQ43405@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516220511.A9DBE380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020517114010.A57127@regency.nsu.ru> <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020519134348.I67779@blossom.cjclark.org> <p05111722b90de01cc974@[10.9.8.215]>
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On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:05:21AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > > So when do we start the "web site"/"website" and "web page"/"webpage" > > debate? > > Right after we settle the "e-mail" vs. "email" debate. ;-) Knuth already did -- http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html A note on email versus e-mail Newly coined nonce words of English are often spelled with a hyphen, but the hyphen disappears when the words become widely used. For example, people used to write ``non-zero'' and ``soft-ware'' instead of ``nonzero'' and ``software''; the same trend has occurred for hundreds of other words. Thus it's high time for everybody to stop using the archaic spelling ``e-mail''. Think of how many keystrokes you will save in your lifetime if you stop now! The form ``email'' has been well established in England for several years, so I am amazed to see Americans being overly conservative in this regard. (Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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