Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:47:56 -0400 (EDT), Richard Bown wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 08:43 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> M$ means Microsoft. Microsoft is often abbreviated as MS, such as in
>> the term "MS-DOS". You can probably guess why the $ is sometimes
>> substituted for the S.
>
> does that mean its a shaky distro ?
Good one! :-)
The substitution of the $ for the S is commentary on their money-grubbing
ways. But I think it is fair to say that most people on this list
would consider Windows a "shaky distro". That's probably one of the
reasons they use Linux.
By the way, from what I hear on the news, the euro is shaky these days too!
(Sorry for the earlier accidental off-list reply, Richard.)
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