Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 21:40:07 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX Message-ID: <20000507214007.Z79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200005071928.HAA04773@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> References: <20000507211744.D3267@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200005071924.NAA72800@harmony.village.org> <200005071928.HAA04773@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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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. :-) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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