Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 16:53:19 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Joe Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX Message-ID: <200005072253.QAA73894@harmony.village.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>
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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
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