Re: [was UEFI] someone does

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 07/11/2014 07:10 PM, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 20:25:51 +0100
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello Brian,
>
> > You are going to hate me for this: there is no "." after Mr; it is a
> > contraction. (Off-topic is that way ----------->).
> This is an international list;  Different countries have different rules
> of grammar and spelling, even when the language is ostensibly the same.
>
> In any case, Mr. used to always have a full stop after it, much as etc.
> did/does.  The dropping of the stop came along after I went to school, at
> the same time the comma stopped being used in addresses on and in
> letter headings.
It always looks a little funny to read things published in England or
even Canada, but one gets used to it pretty fast. A more interesting
question: in what year did the British decide that a pint should have
20 ounces in it? Must have been a bunch of beer-drinkers who decided
to make that change!

(Obviously it worked in that direction, not the other way, since the
old saying exists: "A pint's a pound the world around."  And now it
ain't!)

--doug