cvs commit: src/contrib/top commands.c machine.h top.X top.c

[Coleman Kane]

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 <rafan at FreeBSD.org> 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