[Bug 265247] Typos in the FreeBsd HandBook, Chapter 30 'Network Servers', Section 30.4 titled 'Network Information System'.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=265247

--- Comment #10 from Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to PauAmma from comment #6)

During my years with a University's Faculty of Management and Information
Sciences: the name was, internally, commonly abbreviated to MIS but _never_
mispronounced "miss". Always "M I S". 

Similarly, I never heard anyone say "mitt" with reference to Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Always "M I T". 

The word NIS appears with NFS often enough for me to believe that "niss" would
sound peculiar. I rarely hear NIS spoken, I do recall hearing the "N I S"
pronunciation. 

A number of well-known educational institutions and other organisations use the
phrase 'an NIS'. This number is large enough for me to believe that it is an
acceptable norm. In no particular order, but beginning with MIT: 

<https://web.mit.edu/rhel-doc/3/rhel-rg-en-3/s1-nfs-server-export.html> 

<https://www.csl.mtu.edu/cs3451/www/notes/NFS%20and%20NIS.ppt> slides 33 and 42 

<https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/references/unix/digital/APS2SCTE/DOCU_002.HTM> 

<https://documents.uow.edu.au/~blane/netapp/ontap/nag/networking/concept/c_oc_netw_maintaining_host_name_nis_interf.html> 

<http://alumni.cs.ucr.edu/~sjones/cs183/labs/lab9/> 

<https://gist.github.com/ab2525/4689428> 

<https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/managing-nfs-and/1565925106/ch04.html> 

<https://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/doc/EDOC1100194274/69c4ce62/optional-adding-the-storage-service-plane-to-an-nis-domain>

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2?topic=nis-configuring-worker-server> 

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/aix/7.1?topic=ssw_aix_71/com.ibm.aix.nisplus/doc/nisplus/nis_install.htm> 

<https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/5/html/deployment_guide/s1-nfs-server-config-exports> 

<https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-uk/powerstore-9000t/pwrstr-cfg-nfs/configure-the-nas-server-unix-directory-service-for-nis?guid=guid-2f15de1a-cd71-4b50-a783-bddec43bc12e&lang=en-us> 

<https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/authentication/configure-nis-server-access-task.html> 

<https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/pdfs/sidebar/Configure_LDAP_or_NIS_server_access.pdf> 

<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/nfs/remove-nfsnetgroup?view=windowsserver2022-ps> 

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HTH – hope that helps – ope that elps :-)

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