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Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?



On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 12:00:29AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> And there are ideographic ones, for which there is no alphabetic
> relation between the letters and the pronounciation.  That's the
> present example, in which most English speakers pronounce "i.e." as
> "that IS" and "e.g." as "fr eg-ZAM-pl".  

BTW: now that we  are off-topic I can ask  something I always wanted to know
:) I have the habit to spell "i.e." as "in especially" or more gramatically
correct "especially". Is this a habit so uncommon  or has anybody an idea
where i might have picked that up?

Gruss
Bernd
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