Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 02:29:29 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <p0511171eb910959a28f6@[10.0.1.4]> In-Reply-To: <3CEAE187.FC1CC966@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10205211257490.26365-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <p05111712b9107dce9658@[10.0.1.4]> <3CEAE187.FC1CC966@mindspring.com>
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At 5:08 PM -0700 2002/05/21, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Only twinks pronounce "UPS" as "oops" and "SCO" as "scoh". You are
> supposed to pronounce the letters of acronyms of three letters or
> less. More than three letters depends on whether they are pronouncible
> (e.g. RAID, RADAR, UNICEF, LASER, etc. vs. TANSTAAFL, CCITT, etc.).
My first "real" employer (after college) was the Defense
Communications Agency (DCA). They later changed their name to the
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). We had an entire acronym
dictionary, and I think I might still have my copy around here
somewhere.
We had U-P-S devices on some of our servers, although some people
pronounced the word as "uh-ps". We also used some SCO machines on
certain projects, and taking our clue from SCO Federal Sales, most of
us pronounced it as "skoh".
As for the rest, well I could find our acronym dictionary and
drop it on your head, but that's the sort of thing that I tend to
reserve for my worst enemies. ;-)
> Even someone who learned English in the "Ooh sah" should know that... ;^).
No, that's Etats-Unie, or so I'm told.
Strange, that would make it the EU, whereas I am currently in
Brussels which is the capital of the EU, and yet I am not anywhere
near the US. ;-)
--
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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