Re: Capitalization conventions for Debian release names
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 :)
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