Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 23:11:01 +0100 From: Joe Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, 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: <20000507231101.L38795@pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <20000507214007.Z79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk on Sun, May 07, 2000 at 09:40:07PM %2B0100 References: <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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On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 09:40:07PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > 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. :-) 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. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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