Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 00:43:56 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <p05111712b9107dce9658@[10.0.1.4]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10205211257490.26365-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10205211257490.26365-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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At 1:03 PM -0700 2002/05/21, Annelise Anderson wrote:
> "A UPS device", but "an upside-down cake".
Ahh, but it would be "an uninteruptible power supply", so I would
argue that it should instead be "An UPS", although when you are
talking about the parcel delivery service UPS, you would probably say
"A UPS delivery person".
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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