On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 12:08 +0100, David Malone wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:43:17AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > > Rong-En Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Log: > > > - s/jail id/jail ID/, acronyms should be in uppercase in general. Also, > > > it is written this way in jail(8). > > > ID is not an acronym, it is an abbreviation of "identifier". > > This gets some discussion on the Grammar Girl blog. ID is slightly > unusual because it should probably be written "Id." and might be > said "Id" not "eye-dee". Thus it has aspects of an acronym (it looks > like one and is pronounced like one), but isn't actually formed > from initials. > > (Of course, if something is an acronym or an initialism depends a > bit on what dialect you speak. For me, PXE was an initialism, and > I was rather suprised to discover that is was an acronym in Californian ;-) > > David.
Heh that's a good one. It took me a moment to figure out what this "Pixie Boot" was that everyone kept talking about. I still insist upon calling it P-X-E, though. -- Coleman Kane _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"