On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 11:31:34AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > As someone from the UK, I'm slightly bemused by this. UK English > capitalizes acronyms and other abbreviations just as much as US English > does. Television is "TV", not "tv"; compact discs are "CDs", not "cds";
Oops. I am non-native speaker and my English is broken. This is another example of my mistake. So excuse me. Somehow, I had flakey impression that some common acronyms were spelled in lower case in "The economist" coming from UK. > The convention seems to have been "buzz", "rex", etc. since the early > days. The most likely reason, as you said above, is that this is Unix > and the name of the directory was in lower case. I speculate that it > might also have been to avoid confusion with Pixar's "Toy Story" > characters. This is very good answer. Thanks :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA See "User's Guide": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ "Debian reference" Project at: http://qref.sf.net I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
